A GEORGE II SILVER CUP AND COVER, SIMON PANTIN, LONDON, 1731 |

typical bell form with leaf-capped scroll handles and applied girdle, applied with classical profile and ornate foliate intermittent strap-work bands, on matted ground, the cover applied with similar strap-work below a knopped baluster finial, on a spreading circular foot with foliate husk and shell border, engraved with a coat-of-arms and later Baron's coronet, the cover engraved a crest

Good clear marks to underside and rim of cover. Very heavy gauge. The crest and coronet to cover and body most probably later. Very good condition for age with only fine surface scratches.
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The arms are those of Jolliffe with Mitchell in pretence for John Jolliffe of the Inner Temple, London, who was married to his first wife, Catherine Mitchell on 30 march 1731 at St. Christopher Le Stocks, London. She, who was daughter and heir of Robert Mitchell (d. 1739) of Petersfield, died within three months of their marriage. The later Baron's coronet is most probably for Sir William Jolliffe, 1st Baron Hylton, and the great-grandson of John Jolliffe. Sir William was a British soldier and Conservative politician who notably took part in the Peterloo Massacre of 1819.