Game dish

Description

Base of a partly gilt silver game dish with arms and motto suggesting that it was made for Sir John Hope, 11th Baronet of Craighall and MP for Midlothian from 1845 to 1853: English, London, by Hunt and Roskell, hallmarked 1846 - 1847

Museum reference

A.1993.71 A

Collection

Decorative and Applied Art

Object name

Game dish, Base

Production information

Hunt and Roskell, Silversmith
London, England, Northern Europe

Date

1846 - 1847

Materials

Silver, Gilt

Physical description

Silver, partly gilt

Associations

Possible owner: Hope, John, Sir, 11th Baronet of Craighall, 1781 - 1853

Exhibitions

• Art of Living (08 Jul 2016)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Window on the World (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Illustrated in Michael Clayton, Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver (1985), p. 295, fig. 8

Illustrated in 'Recent acquisitions in Edinburgh Museums', The Burlington Magazine, August 1993, p. 597

Illustrated in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, March 1994, p. 69

On display

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