Lot Essay
The arms are those of Sharpe impaling those of Cartwright.
Details
A GEORGE I SILVER TEA CADDY
LONDON, 1724, MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE
Rectangular, with a step-molded base, the hinged molded cover with a hexagonally-faceted finial, opening above a lock and keyhole, one side engraved with a coat-of-arms within an architectural cartouche with rustication and bird's heads, the other side engraved with a crest within a similar cartouche, marked under base and cover, Britannia standard marks--5 1/8in. (13.02cm.) high
(13oz.)
LONDON, 1724, MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE
Rectangular, with a step-molded base, the hinged molded cover with a hexagonally-faceted finial, opening above a lock and keyhole, one side engraved with a coat-of-arms within an architectural cartouche with rustication and bird's heads, the other side engraved with a crest within a similar cartouche, marked under base and cover, Britannia standard marks--5 1/8in. (13.02cm.) high
(13oz.)
Provenance
Christie's London, May 16, 1979, lot 149.
Literature
Michael Clayton, Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver, Oxford, 1985, p. 113, fig. 12.