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A GEORGE III NEOCLASSICAL OVAL SILVER TRAY,
London 1793, mark of John Crouch I & Thomas Hannam (over-struck), reed-
ed rims, with twin side handles, the central reserve chased with continuous
bands of circular rosette-filled reserves, foliate garlands and central Coat of
Arms with the motto “NOBILITATIS VIRTUS NON STEMMA” (Virtue, not
Pedigree). 64cm wide
The Arms are those of Grosvenor impaling Leveson-Gower. Hugh Lupus
Grosvenor (1825-1899), baronet of Eaton Hall in Cheshire, Earl Grosvenor,
English landowner, politician and racehorse owner. He married Lady
Constance Sutherland-Leveson-Gowe, daughter of the Duke of Sutherland
and became first Duke of Westminster in 1874
€2000 - 4000