MARK OF PIERRE PLATEL, LONDON, 1702

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A QUEEN ANNE SILVER CUP AND COVER
Mark of Pierre Platel, London, 1702
The bell-shaped body on a circular foot, engraved with contemporary armorials within a strapwork and foliate cartouche below a dentilated rim, the lower body with alternating applied strapwork, the slightly domed cover with applied acanthus leaf decoration enclosing the acorn finial, the body with two scroll handles, fully marked on cover and base
9½in. (24.6cm.) high; 47oz. (1458gr.)

Provenance

S.J. Shrubsole, New York, October 1964

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Pole, baronets, probably for Sir William Pole, 4th baronet (c. 1678-1741) of Shute, Devon, who succeeded his father in 1707. He married Elizabeth, daughter of his tenant Robert Warry. He was M.P. for Devon in 1712, and served as Master of the Household to Queen Anne.

A chocolate pot, by Thomas Parr, 1706, also engraved with the arms of Sir William Pole, is in the Al-Tajir Collection and published in The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, 1989, cat. no. 51, p. 76.

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