Details
A GEORGE II SILVER SALVER
MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE (HARE, NO. 5), LONDON, 1742
Of shaped circular form, raised on four openwork scroll feet cast and chased with grapevine, the openwork border cast and chased with Bacchic masks and rocaille amid continuous grapevine, the field flat-chased with a band of scroll, rocaille and foliage enclosing panels of fishscale and trelliswork, the center engraved with a coat-of-arms within an asymmetrical foliate scroll and rocaille cartouche, marked on reverse--19 3/4in. (50cm.) diam.
(105oz.14dwt., 3287gr.)
Provenance
By descent to
R. Salway, Esq., Christie's, London, October 28, 1964, lot 98
Literature
Timothy Schroder, The Dowty Collection of Silver by Paul de Lamerie, Cheltenham, 1983, p. 18, no. 13
Exhibited
Cheltenham, England: Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery, 1983, no. 13
Engraved
The arms are those of Hill of Court of Hill, Shropshire, probably for Thomas Hill, sometime M.P. for Court of Hill. His younger daughter and co-heir married in 1787 Theophilus Richard Salway (1757-1837) of The Lodge, Ludlow.
The same arms appear on a cup and cover of 1739 from Lamerie's workshop, of the same model as the celebrated Bridge cup in the possession of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, sold by a descendant of the original owner at Sotheby's, London, June 20, 1988, lot 161
This salver belongs to a small group of salvers of varying sizes by Lamerie all with similar borders. It includes one of the same year illustrated in Phillips, plate CXXXVII and another sold from the collection of Bryan Jenks, Christie's, London, June 16, 1965, lot 32. Timothy Schroder, in his catalogue entry for the present salver (op. cit.) remarkes "these borders are among de Lamerie's most liberated rcoco creations."
