A GEORGE I SILVER-GILT SALVER

MARK OF AUGUSTINE COURTAULD, LONDON, 1723

Details

A GEORGE I SILVER-GILT SALVER
MARK OF AUGUSTINE COURTAULD, LONDON, 1723
Fifteen-sided on tall bracket feet, with molded border, the center finely engraved with a coat-of-arms within Baroque mantling featuring seated lions and a mask at the base, marked on reverse, with scratch weight 35=1
11 1/8 in. (28.2 cm.) diameter; 35 oz. (1,999 gr.)

Provenance

Sir John Noble, Bt.
The Rt. Hon. Michael Noble, Esq., PC, MP, sold Christie's, London, 13 December 1967, lot 25
Garrard's
Sir Charles Clore, sold Christie's, London, 28 November 1985, lot 41
Christie's, New York, 17 October 1996, lot 384
Sotheby's, New York, 13 October 2007, lot 131
With Alastair Dickenson, London

Literature

Christie's Review of the Season, 1996, p. 320
Christopher Hartop, Geometry and the Silversmith: The Domcha Collection, 2009, p. 16, fig. 9

Exhibited

Royal Academy, London, The Four Georges, 1931, no. 185

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Lot Essay

The arms are those of Wilmot of Stadhampton and Chiselhampton in Oxfordshire, impaling those of Man of London.

This salver is an example of the 15-sided (or "quindecagonal") forms that English silversmiths were able to create by applying techniques in Euclid's Elements of Geometry, first translated into English in 1570. (C. Hartop, Geometry and the Silversmith: The Domcha Collection, 2008, p. 16, illus.)

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