A GEORGE III SILVER EPERGNE, MARK OF THOMAS PITTS, LONDON, 1771

On four shell and scroll feet, with foliate pierced apron, fluted stem and gadrooned borders, fitted with eight detachable leaf-capped scroll branches, each terminating with a partly-fluted detachable dish, four with pierced rim and scroll bracket handles, the boat-shaped central dish pierced with cartouche of trelliswork and with shell terminals, engraved in the dish with a coat-of-arms beneath a crest, the dishes with a crest, in a later fitted wood box, marked underneath each dish, on branches and on frame, four branches dot-numbered and four engraved 1 to 4
14¹⁄₄ in. (36.2 cm.) high
126 oz. (3,920 gr.)
The arms are those of Pleydell with Luttrell in pretence, for Edmund Morton Pleydell (b.c.1734-1794), of Milborne, Dorset and his wife Anne Luttrell (1735-1820), only daughter of Francis Luttrell of Ven, Somerset, whom he married in 1751.

Edmund Morton Pleydell (b.c.1734-1794), of Milborne, Dorset.
A Gentleman; Christie's, London, 13 May 1992, lot 150.

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Edmund Morton Pleydell's wife, Anne Luttrell (1735-1820), was painted by Thomas Gainsborough, during his time in Bath. The portrait was sold by the family in 1909 and is now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, (Acc. No. 17.3266)