Lot Essay
The crest is that of Pettiward of Finborough Hall, Suffolk.
The present example is one of a group of four fish slices of similar form and with comparable piercing and engraving, three of which bear the mark of Paul de Lamerie. The earliest is that in the Farrer Collection at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (A.G. Grimwade, Rococo Silver 1727-65, 1974, pl. 88b, and Michael Clayton, The Collector's Diectionary of the Silver and Gold of Great Britain and North America, 2nd Ed. 1985, fig. 256) which dates from 1741. An example of 1743, engraved with the crest of Algernon, 6th Earl of Mountrath is in the Dawson-Damer collection and the third dating from 1746 formed part of the Anson Service and was sold in these Rooms October 22, 1987, lot 420.
For an authoritative account of this group, including the present example, see Benton Seymour Rabinovitch, Antique Silver Servers for the Dining Table, 1991, pp.38-39
The present example is one of a group of four fish slices of similar form and with comparable piercing and engraving, three of which bear the mark of Paul de Lamerie. The earliest is that in the Farrer Collection at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (A.G. Grimwade, Rococo Silver 1727-65, 1974, pl. 88b, and Michael Clayton, The Collector's Diectionary of the Silver and Gold of Great Britain and North America, 2nd Ed. 1985, fig. 256) which dates from 1741. An example of 1743, engraved with the crest of Algernon, 6th Earl of Mountrath is in the Dawson-Damer collection and the third dating from 1746 formed part of the Anson Service and was sold in these Rooms October 22, 1987, lot 420.
For an authoritative account of this group, including the present example, see Benton Seymour Rabinovitch, Antique Silver Servers for the Dining Table, 1991, pp.38-39