MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE, LONDON, 1735

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AN IMPORTANT GEORGE II SILVER TRAY
Mark of Paul de Lamerie, London, 1735
Shaped rectangular on four bracket feet, cast and chased with strapwork, husks and flowerheads, engraved with a band of scrolls, shells and latticework and with crests at the corners and a similar central cartouche enclosing a coat-of-arms, the molded raised incurved border applied with tied reeding, marked on reverse
24 5/8in. (62.5cm.) long; 156oz. (4852gr.)

Provenance

The Property of the Robert R. Young Foundation from the Estate of Anita O'Keeffe Young, Sotheby's New York, 10-12 October, 1985, lot 408.

Literature

The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, 1989, no. 71, p. 102

Exhibited

"The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection", Christie's, London, 1989, no. 71

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Liddell impaling Delme for Sir Henry Liddell, 4th Baronet (1708-1784) and his wife Anne, only daughter of Sir Peter Delme, Knt., alderman and Lord Mayor of London, whom he married in 1735. He was M.P. for Morpeth 1734-47 and was elevated to the peerage in 1747 as Baron Ravensworth of Ravensworth Castle.

Two similar trays with matching cast borders, of 1734, are illustrated in Philip A.S. Phillips, Paul de Lamerie Citizen and Goldsmith of London: A Study of His Life and Work, 1968, plates LXXXVI and LXXXVII. A third of the same year, again with matching border castings, was sold at Christie's New York, October 22, 1984, lot 337.

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