Lot 767 A pair of substantial Irish George III silver sauce boats A pair of substantial Irish George III silver sauce boats, acanthus capped double scroll handles, gadrooned rims, hoof feet with shells to knees, 21cm long, Joseph Jackson Dublin 1774, 24oz gross Heraldry: Arms of Tonson, of Rathcormac, Co. Cork. The mitre and lack of a baronial coronet suggests that the items were owned by Hon. Ludlow Tonson, DD., (1784-1861). He was the younger son of Col. William Tonson MP (I) (1724-1787) who was created 1st Lord Riversdale of Rathcormac, Co. Cork in 1783. His brother, 2nd Lord Riversdale acqired and enlarge Lisnegar, Co. Cork at his death and thus, along with the barony passed to his brother in 1848. Ludlow had in 1839 been made Bishop of the combines dioceses of Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert and Kilmacdonagh, and the mitre would have been added then and before he inherited the Irish peerage in 1848. Despite being bishop of four doioceses, he elected to live at Lisnegar, whence these items surely came, and which is still lived in today (but by another family)
Lot 767 A pair of substantial Irish George III silver sauce boats A pair of substantial Irish George III silver sauce boats, acanthus capped double scroll handles, gadrooned rims, hoof feet with shells to knees, 21cm long, Joseph Jackson Dublin 1774, 24oz gross Heraldry: Arms of Tonson, of Rathcormac, Co. Cork. The mitre and lack of a baronial coronet suggests that the items were owned by Hon. Ludlow Tonson, DD., (1784-1861). He was the younger son of Col. William Tonson MP (I) (1724-1787) who was created 1st Lord Riversdale of Rathcormac, Co. Cork in 1783. His brother, 2nd Lord Riversdale acqired and enlarge Lisnegar, Co. Cork at his death and thus, along with the barony passed to his brother in 1848. Ludlow had in 1839 been made Bishop of the combines dioceses of Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert and Kilmacdonagh, and the mitre would have been added then and before he inherited the Irish peerage in 1848. Despite being bishop of four doioceses, he elected to live at Lisnegar, whence these items surely came, and which is still lived in today (but by another family)
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