166
Lot 542
Lot 543
Lot 544
Lot 545
542
A CORK SHAPED CIRCULAR SILVER WAITER,
mark of George Hodder of Cork (fl.1738-71), struck “STERLING”,
with shell pie crust rim, plain central reserve, crested, raised on
three feet (c.8ozs). 15.5cm diameter
€800 - 1200
543
AN IRISH GEORGE III SILVER SALVER,
Dublin c.1760, mark of John Moore (fl.1724-67), with shaped
foliate border, the centre with a coat of arms within a rococo
cartouche of scrolls and bulrushes, flower heads, and chased
(somewhat later) with an outer border of scrolls and fruit, raised
on four scroll feet (c.69ozs, scratch weight of “71ozs”). 43cm
diameter
€1500 - 2500
544
AN IRISH SILVER TEAPOT,
Dublin 1817, makers mark of RC, with gadrooned collar, enclosing
a domed lid with flower-head finial, leaf capped handle, the body
with scrolling foliage over a matt ground, on central foot (c.23ozs).
28cm wide over spout
€400 - 600
545
AN IRISH GEORGE III SILVER WINE FUNNEL,
Dublin 1811, mark of James Scott, crested, the body later engraved
“used by three generations of the Persse family, masters of the
Castle Boy Blazers, Co. Galway Hunt. Burton Persse MFH,
b.1751-d.1829, Burton Persse MF b.1782-d.1859, Burton R.P.
Persse MFH b.1828-d.1885”. 15cm high
This records a family of Galway squires, a cadet branch of
Roxborough , seated a Moyode Castle, the typified Barrignton’s
classification “gentlemen to the backbone” and the first mentioned
married Anchoretta, daughter of Giles Eyre, immortalised in the
song “A Man for Galway”
The King of Oudh/Dudh is Mighty Proud!
And so were once the Caysors!
But OLD GILES EYRE he’d have made you stare
If you’d seen him with THE BLAZERS!
€300 - 500
