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Shaped oval, the body chased and engraved with scrolls, shells, and rocaille, with leaf-capped scrolled handles and raised on four scrolled feet, the low domed cover with leafy bud finial, engraved on both sides of body and cover with a coat-of-arms, marked on underside and flange of cover, tureen and cover both numbered 1
18 in. (45.7 cm.) long, over handles
131 oz. 6 dwt. (4,082 gr.)
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The arms in a lozenge found on the present lot are those of Weekes impaling James, for Rebecca Ann Weekes (d.1846), widow of Nathaniel Weekes (1775-1810) of Mangrove, Barbados and daughter of Richard Haughton James IV (1752-1780) of Hanover, Jamaica. She married as her first husband John James Palmer (1704-1797) of Jamaica in 1792. She married Nathaniel Weekes as her second husband in 1800.

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