MARK OF DAVID WILLAUME, LONDON, 1715

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A GEORGE I SILVER-GILT SALVER
MARK OF DAVID WILLAUME, LONDON, 1715
Circular, on four cast foliate scroll feet, with openwork circular gallery, the field chased with an Earl's armorials on a matted ground, with cord surround, the border formed as a gadrooned and acanthus band and an inner band of foliage, scrolls, fleurs-de-lys, the reverse with cut-card calyx, now lacking central foot, also with scratchweights 81 = 16 and 72-12, the feet applied circa 1730, marked on reverse
13½ in. (34.2 cm.) diameter; 73 oz. 10 dwt. (2290 gr.)

Provenance

Offered Christie's Geneva, 15 May 1985, lot 91 (one of a pair)

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon (d.1746)
Lord Huntingdon was the bearer of the third Sword of State at the coronations of George I in 1713 and George II in 1727. He married Lady Shirley Selina, daughter of 2nd Earl Ferrers in 1728. Lady Huntingdon was well known for founding a sect of Calvinist Methodists generally called "Lady Huntingdon's connection". She died in 1791 at age eighty-three, having survived her husband by forty-five years as well as her four sons.

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