Lot 529: A VICTORIAN SILVER SAUCE BOAT, JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1843

A VICTORIAN SILVER SAUCE BOAT, JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1843 with shaped rim applied with foliage, the sides chased, flat-chased and engraved with panels of lattice enclosed within scrolls, scrolling foliage and lobes headed by foliage, engraved under spout with initials MB under a crest, the handle fully modeled as a lion, raised on three scroll supports with shellwork terminals marked on underside, numbered 1567, and stamped HUNT & ROSKELL LATE STORR MORTIMER & HUNT, also engraved Scoville length 9 1/8 in. 23.2cm 26oz 809g

The crest and monogram are those of Henry William Ferdinand Bolckow, M.P. for Middlesborough, naturalized by act of Parliament, son of Heinrich Bolcow of Varchow, Mecklenburg.