MAKER'S MARK OF DAVID WILLAUME I, LONDON, 1725, BRITANNIA STANDARD

细节

A GEORGE I SILVER MEAT DISH
Maker's mark of David Willaume I, London, 1725, Britannia standard
Octagonal, with molded guilloche rim and oval well, the border engraved with the Royal arms and monogram of Queen Anne, and a crest and motto within crossed foliage, marked on reverse, also engraved with scratchweight 84-16
18½in. (47cm.) long; 75oz. 10dwt. (2360gr.)

来源

John Smith ( ), speaker of the House of Commons

John Smith's daughter Harriet in 1724 married Thomas Assheton of Ashley, whose son Thomas assumed the additional name of Smith in 1774 at the death of his maternal uncle, William Smith, and whose grandson's widow left the Welsh estates in 1858 to her husband's great-nephew George William, great uncle of Sir Michael Duff, Bt.
Sir Michael Duff, Bt., sold Christie's, London, December 10, 1958, lot 105
Christie's London, June 4, 1969, lot 182
Christie's New York, April 16-17, 1985, lot 499

拍场告示

This lot may be tax-exempt from sales tax, as set forth in the Sale Tax Notice at the front of the catalogue.

拍品专文

The Royal arms are those of Queen Anne and the crest and motto are those of John Smith (1655-1723), Speaker of the House of Commons. Speaker Smith was presented with 4,000oz. of "indenture plate," after his election to that post on October 24, 1705. The appearance of the Royal arms of Queen Anne on this meat dish, which dates after her death, indicates that the original plate was melted and refashioned, and the new pieces were engraved again with her arms. In the sale of Sir Michael Duff's collection there were 34 similarly engraved lots, of which fourteen were made by David Willaume I (1725-29). The fact that all the pieces from the 1720s were in the Britannia standard also supports the theory that the silver was refashioned from pieces dating from the earlier Britannia standard period.