AN IMPORTANT GEORGE II SILVER SALVER

MAKER'S MARK OF SIMON PANTIN, LONDON, 1730

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AN IMPORTANT GEORGE II SILVER SALVER
Maker's Mark of Simon Pantin, London, 1730
Shaped circular, the double ogee border applied with eight masks at intervals, the border with a rim of flowerheads and bead-and-reel, on four openwork scroll legs with shell feet, field finely engraved with a coat-of-arms within an elaborate cartouche with figures of a shepherd and shepherdess, herms, putti, grapevine and flowers, marked on reverse and with scratchweight 106..15
18 in. (46.2 cm.); 105 oz. 10 dwt. (3291 gr.)
Pantin, Simon

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, January 31, 1963, lot 111
Christie's, London, March 28, 1970, lot 130
Brand Inglis Ltd.

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Clive

An identical cartouche, attributed by Charles Oman to Joseph Sympson, appears on a salver of 1733, maker's mark of Thomas Farren, in the Victoria & Albert Museum, illustrated in English Engraved Silver, 1150-1900, 1978, p. 90, fig. 103. A small number of objects survive with engraving signed by Sympson, much of it in vastly differing style, suggesting that he ran one of the most successful engraving workshops in London during this period. An "S. Sympson" (probably Joseph's son or nephew) published A New Book of Cyphers, More Compleat & Regular than ever Publish'd in 1726 (see Christopher Hartop, "Engraving on English Silver", Antiques, February, 1997, p. 343).