Each shaped-square with everted reeded borders and on bracket feet, with stylised foliate engraving, later engraved with two crests and earl's coronet, marked underneath
5⁷⁄₈ in. (15 cm.) wide
17 oz. 1 dwt. (530 gr.)
The crests are those of Byng for John, 1st Earl of Strafford G.C.B (1772-1860).

Almost certainly commissioned by Admiral Sir George Byng (d. 1733), created Viscount Torrington in 1721, by descent to,
John, 1st Earl of Strafford G.C.B (1772-1860), by descent to,
Edmund Henry Byng, 6th Earl of Strafford (1862-1951), of Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire.

Inventory of Plate and Jewels belonging to George Byng, July 1847, Messrs Garrard & Co., Panton Street, Haymarket, London, part of '4 smaller ditto [waiters] oz. 40'.

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Lot Essay

This pair of waiters, fully hallmarked and each with the maker's mark of Paul de Lamerie originally formed a set of four waiters as listed in the 1847 Garrard inventory, together with one example struck with Paul de Lamerie's maker's mark struck four times only and another example unmarked. The latter two waiters were sold in Two Regency Collectors, Philip John Miles and George Byng (1815-45), Christie's, London, 9 June 2005, lot 26.