A GEORGE II SILVER SALVER

Details
A GEORGE II SILVER SALVER
MAKER'S MARK OF GEORGE HINDMARSH, LONDON, 1739

Of shaped circular form on four leaf-clad scroll feet terminating in shells, the rim applied with scrolling acanthus, the field flat-chased with a border of acanthus scrolls and rocaille enclosing an engraved coat-of-arms within an asymetrical foliate scroll and rocaille cartouche flanked by floral sprays and grapevine, marked on reverse--24¼in.(61.5cm.) diameter
(161oz., 5010gr.)
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, November 30, 1972, lot 38

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Lambe with those of Barker on an escutcheon of pretence, as borne by James Lambe of Hackney who married, in July 1730, as his second wife, Esther Barker, Lady of the Manor of Fairford, Gloucestershire, daughter and co-heiress of Samuel Barker. James Lambe died in1761 and his wife died in 1789, when their estates were inherited by her husband's nephew, John Raymond, who in 1789, assumed the additional name and arms of Barker.