Each circular on spreading gadrooned foot, the partly fluted body with serpent handles, the domed gadrooned covers with similar finials, the liners with scroll handles, engraved with a coat-of-arms, the cover with a crest, marked on foot-rims, cover bezel, liner underside and finials and numbered 2 and 3, with scratch weights 43:11 and 43:3 on bases and 5:3 and 4:18 on liners
9¹⁄₄ in. (23.5 cm.) wide, over handles
96 oz. 6 dwt. (2,996 gr.)
The arms are those of Perceval with a martlet of cadency for the fourth son, impaling Wilson for the Hon. Spencer Perceval (1762-1812) fourth surviving son of John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, (1711-1770) and his second wife Catherine Compton, Baroness Arden (1731-1784). Spencer Perceval married Jane Wilson (d.1844), daughter of General Sir Thomas Spencer Wilson, 6th Bt., in 1790.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 12 April 1995, lot 254.

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SPENCER PERCEVAL
He was born in London on November 1, 1762. The second son of the second Earl of Egmont he was educated at Harrow and Trinity Cambridge. He was called to the bar in 1786 and soon became a prominent lawyer. In 1796 he entered parliament for Northampton, and became a strong supporter of Pitt. In 1807 he became Chancellor of the Exchequer being trusted by George III and in 1809 was elected Prime Minister. He remained in office for only a brief three years as on 11th May 1812 as he entered the lobby of the House of Commons, he was shot dead by a bankrupt Liverpool broker, John Bellingham, who was hanged for the murder on the 18th May.