MARK OF ANTHONY NELME, LONDON, 1691

Details

A WILLIAM AND MARY SILVER TOILET MIRROR
MARK OF ANTHONY NELME, LONDON, 1691
With rectangular plate framed by a gadrooned border, the corners with applied leaves, the pediment with seated putti and urns, the field engraved with a coat-of-arms in a baroque cartouche, marked on the field and the reverse of each section of the border
30 5/8 in. (75.9 cm.) high

Provenance

Sir Archibald White, Baronet, 1932.
The Hon. Mrs. Esmond Harmsworth; Christie's, London, 10 July 1935, lot 49.
William Randolph Hearst, St. Donat's Castle, Wales.
William Randolph Hearst Collection; Christie's 14 December 1938, lot 68 (part of complete toilet service).
Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968.

Literature

Y. Hackenbroch, English and Other Silver: The Collection of Irwin Untermyer, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1969, p. 48, fig. 91.

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Taylor quartering Gee, for Richard Taylor (1649-1699) of Wallingwells, Nottinghamshire. He was the son of Samuel Taylor, mayor of the colony of Tangier after the Restoration. Richard Taylor was the High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire from 1689-90 and served as MP for East Retford from 1690-98.
The Hon. Esmond Harmsworth (d. 1978), subsequently 2nd Viscount Rothermere, purchased Daylesford House in Gloucestershire in 1946, the home of Warren Hastings in the 18th century.

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