A GEORGE III SILVER SOUP TUREEN AND COVER
MARK OF HESTER BATEMAN LONDON, 1787
A GEORGE III SILVER SOUP TUREEN AND COVER MARK OF HESTER BATEMAN LONDON, 1787 Boat-shaped and on spreading base with beaded border, with two reeded scroll handles, the detachable cover with beaded vase finial, the body engraved with two coats-of-arms within bright cut borders, the cover engraved with a presentation inscription, marked under base and on cover bezel 17¾ in. (45 cm.) wide 89 oz. (2,777 gr.) The arms are those of the City of Cork and those of Harding, for Robert Harding The inscription reads 'In the Year MDCCXCVIII when the KINGDOM OF IRELAND was disgraced by a REBELLION, exceeding in Cruelty Barbarity and Ingratitude, every other on record, it was the providential good Fortune of the CITY OF CORK to have the important Office of SHERIFF filled by ROBERT HARDING ESQ R, who actuated by LOYALTY and regardless of Danger (tho he well knew his Assassination was a primary Object of the Disaffected) by unremitting Vigilence & Activity in the discharge of the several Duties of his Station was, under HEAVEN, a chief Instrument in preserving that CITY from the Calamities which desolated so many other Parts of the REALM, therefore, the Mayor, Sheriffs, and Commonalty of the CITY OF CORK have presented him with this Piece of Plate and as a small Memorial of their gratefull Sense of his Merit'
A GEORGE III SILVER SOUP TUREEN AND COVER
MARK OF HESTER BATEMAN LONDON, 1787
A GEORGE III SILVER SOUP TUREEN AND COVER MARK OF HESTER BATEMAN LONDON, 1787 Boat-shaped and on spreading base with beaded border, with two reeded scroll handles, the detachable cover with beaded vase finial, the body engraved with two coats-of-arms within bright cut borders, the cover engraved with a presentation inscription, marked under base and on cover bezel 17¾ in. (45 cm.) wide 89 oz. (2,777 gr.) The arms are those of the City of Cork and those of Harding, for Robert Harding The inscription reads 'In the Year MDCCXCVIII when the KINGDOM OF IRELAND was disgraced by a REBELLION, exceeding in Cruelty Barbarity and Ingratitude, every other on record, it was the providential good Fortune of the CITY OF CORK to have the important Office of SHERIFF filled by ROBERT HARDING ESQ R, who actuated by LOYALTY and regardless of Danger (tho he well knew his Assassination was a primary Object of the Disaffected) by unremitting Vigilence & Activity in the discharge of the several Duties of his Station was, under HEAVEN, a chief Instrument in preserving that CITY from the Calamities which desolated so many other Parts of the REALM, therefore, the Mayor, Sheriffs, and Commonalty of the CITY OF CORK have presented him with this Piece of Plate and as a small Memorial of their gratefull Sense of his Merit'
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