Description:

A PAIR OF GEORGE II BAROQUE STERLING SILVER SAUCE BOATS, MARK OF HUMPHREY PAYNE, ARMORIAL CREST ENGRAVED, LONDON, CIRCA 1735,
in the form of deep oval boats having flaring scalloped rims issuing large spouts and curling handles, with armorial crest engraved on sides of a cock gules holding with its dexter claw an ear of wheat on a mount vert, raised on three shell knee to scroll feet on spreading hoof form ends, each fully marked at base; height: 5 1/2", width: 7 1/4", total approximate weight: 904 grams.

  • Provenance: Collection of Katherine Pitcher, Leonardtown, Maryland; Wayne Norris Cox, Galveston, Texas; Christie's, Important Silver from Mr. A. McVinish, auction no. 2737, lot 103, Rockefeller Plaza, New Yok, October 23, 2013; Property from a Virginia collection.
  • Notes: Armorial crest attributed to the Hancocks Family of Wolverley Court, of Woodfield House, and Blakeshall, Worcester. William Hancocks, Esq., of Wolverley, an extensive ironmaster (b. 1761) married Elizabeth Talbot, daughter and eventual heiress, of Samuel Talbot, Esq., of Wolverley. Reference: Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, by Sir John Bernard Burke, London, Harrison, Pall Mall, 1858. Armorial Families: A Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-Armour, showing which arms in use at the moment are borne of Legal Authority, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, compiler and editor, third edition, Edinburgh, 1899.
  • Condition: Some minor expected wear, likely engraved in the 19th century.

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