A FINE GEORGE II SILVER SALVER

MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE, LONDON, 1739

Details

A FINE GEORGE II SILVER SALVER
MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE, LONDON, 1739
Shaped circular, on four eagle and rockwork feet, the openwork border with bacchanalian masks and grapevine foliage, the field engraved with a rococo cartouche and coat-of-arms, marked on reverse, also with scratchweight 134 11
22¼ in. (56.5 cm.) diameter; 132 oz. 10 dwt. (4142 gr.)

Provenance

R.E.B. Childe, Sotheby's, London, 16 February 1961
Christie's, New York, 24 May 1977, lot 264

Literature

Judith Banister, Old English Silver, 1965, illustrated p.95
The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver From the Al-Tajir Collection, 1989, no. 80, p. 112.

Exhibited

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 1973-77
Sydney Art Gallery, New South Wales, 1980, no. 5
"The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection," Christie's, London, 1989, no. 80

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Pemberton quartering Moore

A salver with an almost identical border by Lamerie is illustrated in P.A.S. Phillips, Paul de Lamerie, 1935, plate cxxxvii, then in the collection of Lord Hillingdon. A.G. Grimwade, in Rococo Silver, 1974, states that this salver, hallmarked 1742, was a forerunner of a type that was to take another 10 years to gain popularity.

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