A George I Provincial Silver Punch Bowl, Robert Makepeace & Francis Batty, Newcastle, 1719

Captain John Clerk, then by descent to his great grandson

Lockwood Brodrick (d.1802), who bequeathed it to his cousin

William Mitcalfe Jr. then by descent to

John Brodrick Dale and be descent to

Colonel E.C.B. Dale, sold

Christie's London, 8 December 1954, lot 145 (£550 to Crichton)

Eldred's, East Dennis, Massachusetts, 7 August 2003, lot 916

The inscriptions read 'Gift of the Owners of The Rotterdam Merchant to Capt John Clerk, 1719' and 'This, Bequeathed by the Will of Lockwood Brodrick of S." Shields, dated 11 Sept 1802 to Willm Mitcalfe Junr Dockway Square. The above named Capt Jso Clerk was Great Grandfather to them both and Lockwood Brodrick died 15 Sep 1802 at 30 yrs. This come into the possession of John Brodrick Dale of Uestae S." Shields, March 1882. The above named Willm Mitcalfe was his maternal grandfather'.

The Rotterdam Merchant was a Newcastle-based ship captained by John Clerk/Clark until at least 1728 and later by Elisha Bell. The ship was lost in 1734 and Elisha Bell with her. The bowl passed to John Clark's great-grandson Lockwood Broderick, who owned a shipbuilding Yard in Newcastle. His 1802 will reads 'I give to the said William Mitcalfe and Dorothy Dale their executors administrators and assigns a silver bowl and two silver tankards late belonging to my uncle Mr Lockwood Brodrick equally to be divided between them as they shall agree...'. (The National Archives, Kew: PROB 11/1382/259)