Lot Essay
Similar engraved cartouches, with buccaneers and birds, appear on a suite of six salvers by Robert Abercromby, 1735 and 1736, sold Christie's, New York, April 16-17, 1985, lot 393.
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A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER WAITERS
LONDON, 1737, MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL CRESPIN
Each of shaped square form, raised on four scrolling bracket feet, the border applied with a molding and flat-chased with foliage at the cusped corners, the field flat-chased with scrolls, cartouches. trellis and rocaille, the center engraved with a coat of arms in a rococo cartouche with two buccaneers, eagles, and griffins and a motto, marked on reverses, also with inventory numbers 4 and 6 and scratchweights 16=4 and 16=12--7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm.) wide
(32 oz.) (2)
LONDON, 1737, MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL CRESPIN
Each of shaped square form, raised on four scrolling bracket feet, the border applied with a molding and flat-chased with foliage at the cusped corners, the field flat-chased with scrolls, cartouches. trellis and rocaille, the center engraved with a coat of arms in a rococo cartouche with two buccaneers, eagles, and griffins and a motto, marked on reverses, also with inventory numbers 4 and 6 and scratchweights 16=4 and 16=12--7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm.) wide
(32 oz.) (2)
Provenance
Christie's New York, October 27, 1987, lot 416.