A GEORGE I SILVER SALVER
A GEORGE I SILVER SALVER
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A GEORGE I SILVER SALVER

MARK OF WILLIAM SPACKMAN, LONDON, 1719

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A GEORGE I SILVER SALVER
MARK OF WILLIAM SPACKMAN, LONDON, 1719
Octafoil with upturned rim, on four bracket feet, the center engraved with a later coat-of-arms within baroque cartouche, marked on field, also with scratch weight 24=15
11 ¼ in. (28.2 cm.) diameter, 24 oz. 6 dwt. (756 gr.)

The arms are those of Ingram quartering Hastang with Mollins in pretence, as borne by Hasting Ingram (1621-1693) and his wife Anne, daughter and co-heiress of Edward Mollins of Westhall, Sherborne, Dorset, whom he married in 1655.
Provenance
Acquired from James Robinson Imports, Ltd., 1967.
Estate of Margaret McGrath Rockefeller.
Literature
D. Fennimore et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Decorative Arts, New York, 1992, vol. IV, p. 391, no. 437 (illustrated).
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The same arms are carved on the 1671 porch of the Ingram manor house in Little Woolford, Worcestershire. A silver coffee pot with the arms of Ingram, also by William Spackman, was sold as part of the Hahn Collection; Christie's, London, 23 October 2000, lot 261.

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