A PAIR OF SILVER DISHES, bearing false marks for Paul De Lamerie, London, 1748, of shaped-circular form, the borders applied with scroll and shells, flat-chased with panels of fish-scale, shells and matting within chased flutes, each on four scroll feet, marked on reverses -- 9 in. diam. (22.9 cm.), 36oz.

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A PAIR OF SILVER DISHES, bearing false marks for Paul De Lamerie, London, 1748, of shaped-circular form, the borders applied with scroll and shells, flat-chased with panels of fish-scale, shells and matting within chased flutes, each on four scroll feet, marked on reverses -- 9 in. diam. (22.9 cm.), 36oz.

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Other similar dishes by Lameri include a set of seven of varying sizes, illustrated in P.A.S. Phillips, Paul de Lamerie Citizen and Goldsmith of London; A Study of His Life and Work, London, 1933, plates XCI and XCII and three of 1738, formerly part of the Corporation of London epergne.

Struck with Lamerie's fifth mark (see Susan Hare, ed., Paul de Lamerie; At the Sign of the Golden Ball, exhibition catalogue, Goldsmith's Hall, London, 1990, p. 29.

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