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Lot Essay
The arms are those of Hoblyn, Cornwall, with another in pretence.
Eliza Godfrey was closely associated with the silver trade throughout her life. Almost certainly the daughter of Simon Pantin, she married her father's godchild, the silversmith Abraham Buteux. She entered her own mark with Goldsmiths' Hall in 1731, carrying on her late husband's business. In 1732 she remarried, to silversmith Benjamin Godfrey, who registered his own mark in that same year. The mark found on these caddies, EG in a lozenge, was entered in 1741, presumably upon the death of her second husband. A set of tea caddies with matching sugar box of the same design, produced by Eliza Godfrey, 1742, sold at Sotheby's, New York, October 24, 2000, lot 393.
Eliza Godfrey was closely associated with the silver trade throughout her life. Almost certainly the daughter of Simon Pantin, she married her father's godchild, the silversmith Abraham Buteux. She entered her own mark with Goldsmiths' Hall in 1731, carrying on her late husband's business. In 1732 she remarried, to silversmith Benjamin Godfrey, who registered his own mark in that same year. The mark found on these caddies, EG in a lozenge, was entered in 1741, presumably upon the death of her second husband. A set of tea caddies with matching sugar box of the same design, produced by Eliza Godfrey, 1742, sold at Sotheby's, New York, October 24, 2000, lot 393.