Marks Antiques
Mayfair, London
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER TWO-HANDLED CUPS
CLARKE & WEST and DANIEL EGAN
DUBLIN, 1809/12
Each on a plain spreading circular foot, the otherwise plain bell-shaped bodies engraved with a coat-of-arms, crest and motto, harp-shaped handles
Height 8 ΒΌ in, 21 cmClarke & West - Daniel Egan
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The arms are those of Cuninghame with a label of difference for Cuninghame of Corshill, co. Ayr, baronets (1672), descended from Andrew, younger son of the 4th Earl of Glencairn (1490?-1547).
The marks of Clarke & West and Daniel Egan have been noted together on a number of examples of Dublin silver of this date.