Price On Request The Chetwynd-Talbot TraySilver-gilt London 1805 Maker’s mark of Digby Scott & Benjamin Smith; Retailed by Rundell, Bridge and Rundell Length: 23 ¼ inches (59 cm) Weight: 202 oz. (6,269 g) Oval and on four bacchanalian mask and goat's-hoof feet, with cast and applied openwork grapevine border, with ribbon and berried laurel leaf rim, the handles centering a leopard's mask with fruit garland rim and ram's-head joins, engraved with a coat-of-arms below an earl's coronet, marked on back and on edge of base, further stamped 'RUNDELL, BRIDGE ET RUNDELL AURIFICES REGIS ET PRINCIPIS WALLIæ LONDINI FECERUNT' The arms are those of Talbot quartering Chetwynd impaling Lambart for Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot of Hensol (1777-1849) and his wife Frances Thomasine, eldest daughter of Charles Lambert of Beau Parc in co. Meath. who he married in 1800. Provenance Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot of Hensol (1777-1849). Henry Spencer and Sons, Retford, 1966 (one of a pair). Mrs. B.E. Llewelyn, Christie's, London, 31 March 1971, lot 118. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 28 November 1979, lot 29. Literature J.B. Hawkins, The Al Tajir Collection of Silver and Gold, London, 1983, p. 92. The Glory of the Goldsmith, Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, London, 1989, p. 164. Exhibited London, Christie's, The Glory of the Goldsmith, Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, 1989, no. 126 Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot of Hensol (1777-1849) Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot of Hensol (1777-1849) was the son of John Chetwynd Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot of Hensol (1750-1793), and his wife, Charlotte (d. 1804), daughter of Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire. He succeeded to the peerage on the death of his father in May 1793 and matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford the following year. After leaving Oxford Talbot joined Lord Whitworth's...