MARK OF MARY PIERS, LONDON, 1758

each with gadrooned border on three scroll shell sheet, each engraved with a coat-of-arms within Rococo cartouche, marked underneath, scratch weights 14:16½ and 14:14
8¹⁄₂ in. (22 cm.) long
28 oz. 14 dwt. (895 gr.)
The arms are those of Meynell quartering Littleton and Poyntz impaling Boothby quartering Scrimshaw for Hugo Meynell (1735-1808), of Quorndon, co. Leicester and his second wife Anne (d.1815), daughter of Thomas Boothby Scrimshaw of Tooley Park, co. Leicester, whom he married in 1758. Hugo Meynell was master of the King's stag-hounds and M.P. for Lichfield from 1762 until 1768. He was also M.P. for Lymington from 1769 to 1774 and the M.P. for Stafford until 1778. He was a celebrated huntsman and founded the Quorn Hunt.

Hugo Meynell (1735-1808), of Quorndon, co. Leicester, then by descent to,
The Trustees of the Will of the late Hugo Meynell; Christie's, London, 7 March 1990, lot 142.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London,11 May 1994, lot 203.

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