A George III Silver Bread Basket, Paul Storr, London, 1794

of oval boat form with ribbon-bound reeded rim, the lower body chased with radiating leaves and leaf-tips and centered by contemporary engraved arms and supporters under a Marquess coronet, the reeded swing handle springing from leaves

Cecil R. Allen, Nashville, TN

The arms are those of Pratt with Molesworth in pretense for John Jeffreys, 2nd Earl and 1st Marquess Camden, born 1759, lord lieutenant of Ireland 1798, K.G., Chancellor of Cambridge of the University of Cambridge, and his wife Frances, daughter and heir of William Molesworth of Wembley, whom he married in 1785.  She died in 1829, and he in 1840.

some overall wear especially to rim and engraved arms, otherwise good condition
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