Salvers / Trays & Waiters

Scottish William IV sterling silver salver made by Robert Gray & Son, Glasgow, 1836-1837, of substantial weight and decorated in a flourish of fruiting grapevine around a central well, there engraved with a scrolling foliate wreath and central family crest of the Willan Family of London and Kingston upon Hull. The rim is embellished with an egg and dart border and the whole is raised on three bracket feet of fruiting vine. PROVENANCE:  The Crest, a demi-lion rampant or. holding in its dexter paw a mullet of six-points, is that of the Willan Family, of London and Kingston upon Hull. The Willan family were members of parliament in Kingston-upon-Hull at least back into the 16th Century and persisted strongly into the 19th.