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Lot Essay
A similar set of sauceboats of 1733, with later stands were sold at Sotheby's New York, 4 June 1974, and are also illustrated in A. Grimwade, Rococo Silver, London, 1974.
The de Salis family are described as 'amongst the most ancient of Germany' in the 1853 edition of Burke's Peerage and Baronetage. Throughout the Middle Ages they held positions of importance in the Republic of the Grisons. They held large tracts of land in the Maira well into the 19th century. However, the line we have to treat came to England in 1709. Peter de Salis, father of Jerome, cited above, was envoy and Minister-Plenipotentiary of Emperor Joseph I of Germany to the court of Queen Anne and was created a Count of the Holy Roman Empire in 1748. His son Jerome had been naturalized as a citizen of Britain by act of Parliament in 1730 and married the sister and eventual heiress of the second and last Viscount Fane in 1735. He succeeded his father as 2nd Count de Salis of Soglio on the death of the latter in 1749.
The de Salis family are described as 'amongst the most ancient of Germany' in the 1853 edition of Burke's Peerage and Baronetage. Throughout the Middle Ages they held positions of importance in the Republic of the Grisons. They held large tracts of land in the Maira well into the 19th century. However, the line we have to treat came to England in 1709. Peter de Salis, father of Jerome, cited above, was envoy and Minister-Plenipotentiary of Emperor Joseph I of Germany to the court of Queen Anne and was created a Count of the Holy Roman Empire in 1748. His son Jerome had been naturalized as a citizen of Britain by act of Parliament in 1730 and married the sister and eventual heiress of the second and last Viscount Fane in 1735. He succeeded his father as 2nd Count de Salis of Soglio on the death of the latter in 1749.