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Tankard, Charles II, slightly tapering cylindrical body, engraved with contemporary armorials within a plume cartouche; cap-shaped cover; bifurcated thumbpiece and simple scroll handle, on moulded base.

Tankard, 1669-1670

FS

G354

shell-shaped covered spice box; James I; oval body with flat back divided into two sections; ovolo mount, on four shell feet; hinged shell-shaped domed cover with matching mount; clasp and button at front

Sugar box, 1621-1622

TE or TI

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A superb round, flared, scalloped rim basket with sides of three strand open basket weave; low pierced rim foot; two rope work handles. Center engraved with coat of arms, crest, ribbon and motto within strapwork and foliate cartouches on hatched ground flanked by caryatid supporters and leering masks below. Arms: of George Baillie of Jerviswood and Mellerstain, and his wife, Grisell, whom he married in 1690, 5th daughter of Sir Patrick Hume, later (1697) 1st Earl of Marchmont. He had, like his father-in-law, been an exile in Holland, his father having been executed for alleded complicity in the Rye House plot. Motto: Maior Wirtus Quam Splendor - Virtue is Greater than Splendour.

Cake basket, 1724-1725

Paul de Lamerie

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