RARE EARLY GEORGE III PIERCED SILVER SERVING TROWEL Thomas Nash, London, 1765
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Extremely decorative and rare triangular cast and pierced trowel-form server, the slightly curved blade with complex scrolling and interlaced foliate openwork, within a bright-cut gadrooned pattern edge, joined by a central acanthus leaf to a slightly arched corresponding bright-cut gadrooned shaft ending in further interlaced foliate openwork at the terminal, the blade verso crested with a squirrel sejant cracking a nut, and Gadsby and No 1 (Fairbairns 135.7 – Amcot, Barrow, Gilbert, Lee et al); made for varied uses, including fish, cakes and pudding
Condition : Excellent with very crisp marks
Ref : A similar trowel appears in, "Antique Silver Servers for the Dining Table," B.S. Rabinovitch, pp. 66, 67; also see Peter Waldon, Price Guide to Antique Silver, p. 247, pl. 785
11.5” Long x 4.15” Wide (Blade) / 4.8 oz.
SOLD
#6591
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Also See :
George III Pierced Silver Server / Slice Richard Mills, 1770, the blade centering three crested Jaybirds
Fine Pair of George IV Silver Serving Tongs, William Eaton, 'Kings Hourglass', 1826
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