A RARE GEORGE I SILVER-GILT SALVER

Property of AN IRISH PENSION FUND

Details

A RARE GEORGE I SILVER-GILT SALVER
BRITANNIA STANDARD, MAKER'S MARK OF AUGUSTINE COURTAULD, LONDON, 1723

Fifteen-sided, on three pad feet, with molded rim, engraved with a coat-of-arms within rococo cartouche flanked by lions, birds and snakes, marked on reverse
11¼in. (28.6cm.) diameter; 35oz. (1097gr.)

Provenance

Sir John Noble, Bt.
The Rt. Hon. Michael Noble Esq., PC, MP Christie's, London, December 13, 1967, lot 25
Sir Charles Clore, Christie's, London, November 28, 1985, lot 41, and illustrated on the cover

Literature

Christie's Review of the Season, 1986, illustrated p. 320

Exhibited

Royal Academy, London, The Four Georges, 1931, no. 185

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Wilmot of Stodham and Chiselhampton, Oxford, impaling those of Mann, of Broadoak, Essex.

The same arms in an identical cartouche appear on a cup and cover of the following year, also by Courtauld, illustrated in E. Alfed Jones, Some Silver Wrought by the Courtauld Family, 1940, p. 42, plate XXII.

This is believed to be the only fifteen-sided salver known from this period.