A George II Basket
London, 1744
By John Jacob
Weight: 1988 g. / 63.92 ozt.
Basket with pierced body and heavy swing handle cast with with dolphins above the hinges.
Arms of Sir Thomas Hankey, (1704-1770 Hankey & Co. Bankers, later Nat West) impaling those of his wife Sarah, daughter of Sir John Barnard MP.