Shaped circular with molded rim and on four scroll feet, the center engraved with a coat-of-arms in a baroque strapwork cartouche flanked by demi-herms and flowering boughs, marked on underside and with engraved scratchweight 50=16
14 in. (35.5 cm.) diameter
48 oz. 18 dwt. (1,521 gr.)
The arms are those of Harrison quartering Medley impaling Dealtry for John Harrison of Lincoln and Norton Place, Lincolnshire (1701-1768) and his wife Elizabeth Dealtry (d.1769), daughter of William Dealtry of Gainsborough, widow of Philip Jenkinson of Lincoln, whom he married in 1732. Their son John Harrison of Norton Place (1738-1811) was M.P. for Great Grimsby and then Thetford. He commissioned John Carr of York to build a fine Palladian house Norton Place.

Acquired from S.J. Shrubsole, New York, 9 May 1983.