M. FORD CREECH ANTIQUES & FINE ARTS

 

RARE EARLY GEORGE III PIERCED SILVER SERVING TROWEL

Thomas Nash, London, 1765

 

 

 

 

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.

 

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#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

 

For related silver serving pieces, please click below:

 

George III Silver Stilton Cheese Scoop, Eley, Chawner & Fearn

Victorian Silver Cheese Scoop

 


 

 

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Rare Early George III Silver Pierced Serving Trowel, crested, a squirrel cracking a nut, 1765