On circular foot, the lower body and cover chased with foliate border, engraved with coat-of-arms, with foliage-capped scroll handles and baluster finial, marked underneath and on cover bezel, also with scratchweight 64=0 under base
13¹⁄₄ in. (33.5 cm.) high
91 oz. 16 dwt. (2,856 gr.)
The arms are those of Nightingale impaling Shirley for Joseph Gascoigne Nightingale (1695-1752) of Manhead, co. Devon and Enfield, co. Middlesex, and his wife Elizabeth (1704-1731), the eldest daughter of Washington Shirley, 2nd Earl Ferrers (1677-1729), whom he married in 1725.

Joseph Gascoigne Nightingale (1695–1752) of Manhead, co. Devon and Enfield, co. Middlesex.

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Joseph Gascoigne Nightingale (1695-1752) was born Joseph Gascoigne. He took the coat of arms and name of Nightingale after inheriting considerable property from his uncle Sir Robert Nightingale 4th Bt. (d.1722), President of the East India Company. Joseph's wife, Lady Elizabeth, sadly died in childbirth. Their arms appeared on an extensive silver-gilt toilet service by John Edwards, 1725 sold Sotheby's, London, 27 June 1963, lot 43, a casket from which was sold from the collection of the late Hubert de Givenchy, Christie's, Paris, 15 June 2022, lot 145.