A pair of George III sterling silver bottle coasters, maker's…
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A pair of George III sterling silver bottle coasters, maker's mark Nh (Henry Nutting or Hannah Northcote), London, 1806, each with an everted and gadrooned rim above the reeded sides and beech base with silver centre engraved with a lion's head on coronet crest, 4 cm high, 14.5 cm diameter. Provenance: J. H. Bourdon-Smith Ltd, London
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- Engraving - The method of decorating or creating inscriptions on silver and other metal objects by marking the surface with a sharp instrument such as a diamond point or rotating cutting wheel.
- Gadrooning - A series of lobes usually as a border. In furniture gadrooning is found as carved decoration around the edges of table tops in the Chippendale and Jacobean style furniture. Gadrooning is also found as decoration on the rims of silver and ceramics.
- George Iii - George III (1738 - 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820.
- Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.
- Everted - An everted rim is an outwardly turning or flaring outwards rim, as seen the rims on jugs, vases, bowls and dishes.
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