A GEORGE III SILVER EIGHT BRANCH EPERGNE, MARK OF THOMAS PITTS I, LONDON, 1773

On four scroll supports terminating in openwork pad feet, the oval frame with pendant profiles of Flora and Ceres linked by berried laurel swags, supporting eight extending reeded scroll branches topped by four shallow circular dishes and four oval navette-form dishes all with pierced sides and engraved to the centers with a crest, the central support similarly pierced and topped by large oval basket engraved on both sides with a coat-of-arms, marked throughout
20¹⁄₂ in. (52 cm.) long
103 oz. 18 dwt. (3,231.3 gr.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 25 June 1894, lot 86.
Acquired from S.J. Shrubsole, New York, 6 December 1993.

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Lot Essay

The arms are those of Freeman impaling Hobhouse, for John Freeman (1725-1788) of Letton, Herefordshire and his second wife Jane Hobhouse (1743-1775), daughter of Henry Hobhouse of Hadspen House, co. Somerset, whom he married in 1774.