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A FINE GEORGE II SILVER CAKE BASKET
BRITANNIA STANDARD, LONDON, 1731, MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE (HARE, NO>
Of oval form on rim foot pierced with a band of ovolo, the everted sides pierced and chased to resemble basket-weave within a tied reededband and interlaced weave border, with twisted wire swing handle issuing from shells and foliage, the interior elaborately engraved with a braod band of trelliswork with scrolls, strapwork and rocaille at intervals, the center with a coat-of-arms within a scroll and shell architectural cartouche, marked under base--12 3/4in. (32.3cm.) long (
BRITANNIA STANDARD, LONDON, 1731, MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE (HARE, NO>
Of oval form on rim foot pierced with a band of ovolo, the everted sides pierced and chased to resemble basket-weave within a tied reededband and interlaced weave border, with twisted wire swing handle issuing from shells and foliage, the interior elaborately engraved with a braod band of trelliswork with scrolls, strapwork and rocaille at intervals, the center with a coat-of-arms within a scroll and shell architectural cartouche, marked under base--12 3/4in. (32.3cm.) long (
來源
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, June 27, 1979, lot 145
出版
Schroder, 1983, p. 19, no. 14
展覽
Cheltenham, 1983, no. 14
刻印
The arms are those of Beachcroft quartering those of another and impaling those of Seward.
A number of basket-form cake baskets from Lamerie's workshop are known, although only a few have a swing handle.; one such is an example of 1734 formerly in the Rothermere Collection, illustrated in Clayton, 1985a, p. 26, fig. 14
A number of basket-form cake baskets from Lamerie's workshop are known, although only a few have a swing handle.; one such is an example of 1734 formerly in the Rothermere Collection, illustrated in Clayton, 1985a, p. 26, fig. 14