A PAIR OF GEORGE III SALVERS
WILLIAM ROBERTSON, EDINBURGH 1794
£1,000
Scottish Silver & Applied Arts
Auction: 15 August 2018 at 11:00 BST
Description
of circular outline with reeded rim and engraved armorial to centre, raised on three stepped bracket feet (2)
Dimensions
21.5cm diameter, combined weight 30oz
Footnote
The arms as engraved are those of the family of Fullerton.
They may be blazoned as follows:
Arms: Argent three otters’ heads erased gules [differenced with a crescent]
Crest: A camel’s head and neck erased proper
Motto: Lux in tenebris [Light in darkness]
Upon the balance of probability and without any evidence to the contrary this pair of salvers was in the possession of a second son of the family of Fullerton, of Ballintoy Castle in the County of Antrim. The family are said to have settled in Ulster from Scotland sometime during the reign of King James I. The progenitor of the family at Ballintoy was a Fergus Fullarton. The surname of Fullerton or Fullarton is derived from the Barony of Fullarton near Irvine in the County of Ayrshire. So, saying it is thought that the Fullertons were anciently of either Anglo-Saxon or Norman origin who settled in Scotland at the beginning of the 12th Century. The first known
member of the Ayrshire Fullartons from an evidential point of view was Alanus de Fowlertoun, who was born during the early 13th Century and who died around the year 1280.