A GEORGE III SILVER TEA CADDYEDWARD ALDRIDGE, LONDON 1768With a baluster finial to the gadrooned domed cover, the cover engraved with a crest, the body engraved with an armorial and on four scrollwork feet16.5cm (6 1/2in) high270g (8.7 oz)The paternal arms are for the ARCHER family of Warwickshire. The arms were granted in 1685 to Robert ARCHER (1647-1700) of Wainfleet Lincolnshire and Tanworth Warwickshire. The Wainfleet branch of the family, moved to Wood Bevington manor, Alcester in Warwickshire and Robert's son Joseph died there in 1715, his family remaining there until after 1791. It is likely to be his son John ARCHER, who was of Alcester at his death in 1791, who is the owner of the paternal arms at the time of assay (1768). The blazon: azure, three arrows or (Archer). Impaling - or, on a chevron azure between three griffins heads erased, a horse's head between two bees volant Crest: out of a mural coronet gules a dragon's head argent (Archer)Motto: SOLA BONA QUÆ HONESTAFrom the Estate of Mrs Renée Robeson, (née de Rothschild), 1927-2015By family descent and sold by order of a member of the de Rothschild Family