Property from an Important Southern Collection
A GEORGE I SILVER PUNCH BOWL, JOHN CARNABY, NEWCASTLE, 1721
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12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Property from an Important Southern Collection
A GEORGE I SILVER PUNCH BOWL, JOHN CARNABY, NEWCASTLE, 1721
the front engraved with arms in Baroque cartouche, a crest on the other side, with drop-ring handles issuing from applied lion masks in scrollwork surrounds
marked on body below rim and on both handles
66 oz
2052.6 g
diameter 12⅞ in.
32.7 cm
Garrard & Co., Ltd., London, October 1982
The arms are those of Bell, probably of Woolsington Hall, Newcastle, Northumberland. Matthew Bell was Alderman of Newcastle, High Sheriff 1736, and Mayor 1757. The arms may be for him or for his father, also Matthew.