Oval, the pierced everted sides with scrolled rim and conforming base rim, the interior flat-chased and engraved with a border of scrolls, trellis, and shells enclosing a later engraved central coat-of-arms within an asymmetrical rocaille cartouche, the swing scroll handle similarly engraved and centered by a later crest, marked on underside, handle with maker's mark
12¹⁄₂ in. (31.7 cm.) long
60 oz. 4 dwt. (1,872 gr.)

Lord John Thynne, later 3rd Baron Carteret (1772 - 1849), third son of Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath (1734 - 1796), and his wife Mary Ann (1777 - 1863), daughter of Thomas Master (1744 - 1823), of The Abbey, Cirencester and Knole Park, Bristol, to her cousin,
William Chester Master (1785 - 1868) of The Abbey, Cirencester and Knole Park, Bristol, to his son,
Thomas William Chester Master (1815 - 1899) of The Abbey, Cirencester and Knole Park, Bristol, to his son,
Colonel Thomas William Chester Master (1841 - 1914) of The Abbey, Cirencester and Knole Park, Bristol.
A Gentleman [Colonel Chester Master]; Christie’s, London, 26 June 1912, lot 85.

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The crest on the handle of the present lot is that of Thynne and the arms in the center are those of Thynne impaling Master with another in pretence, for Lord John Thynne, later 3rd Baron Carteret and his wife Mary Ann (1777 - 1863), daughter of Thomas Master (1744 - 1823), of The Abbey, Cirencester and Knole Park, Bristol.

Peter Archambo (1699 - 1759) was born in England to the Huguenot refugee Archambault family from France. Apprenticed in 1710 to the noted Huguenot goldsmith Jacob Margas (1677 - c. 1750), Archambo entered his first mark as a largeworker in 1721. A nearly identical basket by Archambo dated 1736 engraved with the arms of Sir Henry Northcote, 5th Baronet (1710 - 1743) was sold in Early English Silver from the Collection of the Late Charles L. Poor, Sotheby's, New York, 26 October 2005, lot 50.