A GEORGE II SILVER CAKE-BASKET

Details

A GEORGE II SILVER CAKE-BASKET
LONDON, 1740, MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE

Of oval form on spreading foot pierced with stylized fleurs-de-lys and strapwork, the everted sides pierced with scrolls, anthemion and panels of crosslets, the reeded wavy rim with scrolls and rocaille at intervals, with leaf applied multi-scroll swing handle, the centre engraved with a coat-of-arms within an asymetrical foliate scroll and rocaille cartouche within a border of engraved rocaille, marked on base -- 13½ in. (34.3 cm.) long
(59 oz. 10 dwt.)

Provenance

Mrs. John W. Christner, Christie's, New York, June 7, 1979, lot 104

Literature

Michael Clayton, Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver, Oxford, 1985 p. 167, plate 4

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Powys impaling those of Spence, for Thomas Powys of Lilford, born in 1719, who succeeded on the death of his great uncle, Sir Littleton Powys in 1731 to the family estates in Shropshire. He married in 1740 Henrietta, daughter of Thomas Spence, Sergeant of the House of Commons. His eldest son Thomas was created Baron Lilford

Struck with Lamerie's fifth mark.