Coaster
Benjamin Smith
Category
Silver
Date
1820
Materials
Silver wine coasters.
Measurements
64 x 150 mm
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Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 516526
Summary
Pair of silver wine coasters, pierced and chased with leopards, urns and bacchante masks and with ovolo rims, centre engraved with a crest - demi-lion. On bone casters. George III by Benjamin Smith 1820. Hallmark.
Provenance
Purchased by Lord Fairhaven from David Black of 1 Burlington Gardens, London W1, on 5 May 1948, for £60, (no invoice number) (Urban) Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Baron Fairhaven (1896-1966) bequeathed by Lord Fairhaven to the National Trust along with the house and the rest of the contents National Trust
Makers and roles
Benjamin Smith