Silver sauce boat with hooved feet

An image of Sauce boat. H?, silversmith, Ireland, Dublin. Oval with wavy edged rim; the sides undecorated; standing on three cast legs with trefoil capitals, knuckles, and hoof feet; with double scroll flying handle, the base scratch engraved with the initials ‘MM’ and ‘5:4½’ for 5 oz 4 ½ dwt. Silver, height, to top of handle, 8.2 cm, width, from lip to handle, 16 cm, weight, overall, 170 g, circa 1760.

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Sauce boat. H?, silversmith, Ireland, Dublin. Oval with wavy edged rim; the sides undecorated; standing on three cast legs with trefoil capitals, knuckles, and hoof feet; with double scroll flying handle, the base scratch engraved with the initials ‘MM’ and ‘5:4½’ for 5 oz 4 ½ dwt. Silver, height, to top of handle, 8.2 cm, width, from lip to handle, 16 cm, weight, overall, 170 g, circa 1760.

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Accession Number: MAR.M.33-1912
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/1.0
Camera: NIKON D70
Photographer name: Michael Jones
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Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 103.63kB
Exposure time: 1/60
Captured: 2007:06:28 11:20:02

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18th Century capitals cast engraved engraving feet Fitz_AA foot Georgian handle handled hoof hooves initial initialled initials Irish oval raised sauce boat sauce-boat sauceboat scrolled scrolls service ware serving piece Silver silverware spout spouted tableware three-legged trefoil

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