A GEORGE I SILVER SALVER

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A GEORGE I SILVER SALVER
LONDON, 1726, MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE

Of shaped square form, on four molded bracket feet, the molded rim with cusped corners, engraved with four panels of strapwork and husk against matting, the corners engraved with acanthus, the field engraved at the border with a band of trellis pattern with paterae at intervals and cartouches at the corners, the center engraved with a coat of arms within an architectural cartouche with brickwork, female terms holding pendant husk festoons, and a winged cherub's head, the corners engraved with a crest, marked on reverse, and with scratchweight 61 oz. 10 dwt.--13 1/4 in. (13.6 cm.) wide
(60 oz. 10 dwt.)

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Swymmer impaling those of Reynardson. A pair of similar salvers of 1730 engraved with the arms of Reynardson is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, while another, of 1727, engraved with the arms of Reynardson impaling those of Farnaby, is in the Jerome and Rita Gans Collection of English Silver, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond