English Silver Pair of Boxes

Lewis Herne & Francis Butty
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reference number: ES_028

1761

silver

width: 24 cm

maker’s mark: LH over & FB into a quatrefoil mark for Lewis Herne & Francis Butty

city assay mark: leopard’s head in a shield for London

date letter ‘f’ for 1761

Provenance

Perceval family, Earls of Egmont

Partridge Fine Art Ltd., London

 

A pair of George III silver-gilt caskets of oblong form, each embossed with a rococo ornament on a scalework ground. The hinged covers engraved with a crest below a coronet – the coat of arms of Earls of Egmont – within a rococo cartouche.

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