Details
Square with in-curved corners and upturned rim, on four bracket feet, the center engraved with a coat-of-arms within a Baroque strapwork and brickwork cartouche with two seated Bacchic figures, the corners with foliate cartouches enclosing script mirror cypher RS and owl crests, marked on underside and with engraved scratchweight 54=6, further with a later French control mark to the rim
1318 in. (33.3 cm.) square
52 oz. 6 dwt. (1,627 gr.)
The arms are those of Standish impaling Howard for Ralph Standish (1670-1755) of Standish, co. Lancaster, and his wife Lady Phillippa Howard (1678-1731), daughter of Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk.
Provenance
Ralph Standish (1670-1755) of Standish, co. Landcaster, and his wife Lady Phillippa Howard (1678-1731).
Acquired from S.J. Shrubsole, New York, 11 June 1980.
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