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Koopman Rare Art

Philip Rundell

An Important George IV Tray

Length (handle to handle): 80cm, 31 1/2in. Weight: 7682g, 247oz

description

The arms are those of Lucy quartering Percy, for Hugh, 3rd Duke of Northumberland K.G. (1795-1847)



Shaped oblong and on eight paired lion’s paw feet, with gadrooned border and two oak-branch, oak-leaf and acorn handles, the centre finely engraved with a coat-of-arms below duke’s coronet, within a border of ribbon-tied husk and rosette swags hung from oval paterae and with panels of matting.