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Silver; the sides pierced, embossed and chased with birds, scrolls, foliage and flowers
Silver; the concave sides pierced, embossed and chased with birds, scrolls, foliage and flowers. An applied square-section rim at top and bottom. Two rococo cartouches, one engraved with a crest of an estoile, the other engraved with a coat-of-arms per pale dexter gules on a bend engrailed argent three martlets sable impaling sinister argent a chevron sable between three elephonts' heads erased vert on a chief gules a broken sword proper helt and pommel or the point hanging down between two plates (roundels argent).
History note: The coat-of-arms and crest are probably those of Thomas-Townley Dawson of Kinsale, Co. Dublin (born 6 June 1732) who married (20 November 1759) Joanna Saunders, daughter of Anderson Saunders of Co. Wicklow. They had one child, a daughter Catherine Maria (1761-1851) who married Charles Bury, 1st earl of Charleville.
History note: Charles Brinsley Marlay, London
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Weight: 565 g
Weight: 18:3 oz:dwt
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1912)
by
Marlay, Charles Brinsley
3rd quarter 18th Century
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1760
: Accessioned as 1750-60
No maker's mark or hallmarks
Foot Rim
Diameter 21 cm
Diameter 8¼ in
To Rim
Height 9.3 cm
Height 3⅝ in
Coat Of Arms
Crest
Decoration
Accession number: MAR.M.36-1912
Primary reference Number: 140658
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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"Dish ring"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140658 Accessed: 2022-05-22 14:25:10
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