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Lot 125
A pair of George III silver sauce boats Sebastian & James Crespell, London 1763 (2)
19 November 2025, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£1,000 - £1,500
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A pair of George III silver sauce boats
Sebastian & James Crespell, London 1763
Each with a shaped gadrooned rim and acanthus leaf-capped scroll handle, the body engraved with a coat of arms and raised on three scroll shell feet, length 22cm, weight 32.2oz. (2)
Each with a shaped gadrooned rim and acanthus leaf-capped scroll handle, the body engraved with a coat of arms and raised on three scroll shell feet, length 22cm, weight 32.2oz. (2)
Footnotes
These are the arms of the French Huguenot family of BERTHON, who as natives of Chatellerant, France settled in St Giles, Middlesex during the late seventeenth century. The first recorded settler was Paul BERTHON (1675-1742) who arrived with his wife Magdalen DAVALL (1680-1715) and settled in St Giles, where their son also Paul BRETHON (1705-1765) was born. Paul junior was a merchant and is believed in 1727 to have married at St Benet Paul's Wharf: Jeane SAURET (1706-1777), although his will names her as Amphillis. Their son Peter BERTHON (1739-1809) was born in Lisbon, Portugal but settled in Leyton, Essex, where a vault for the family was created in the local church. In 1765 he married Mary HARRISON (1750-1822). This item, assayed in 1763 in London, may have been intended as a marriage item.
The blazon: argent, a chevron between in chief three mullets gules and in base as many ermine spots.