MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE, LONDON, 1736

Details

A GEORGE II SILVER CUP AND COVER
MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE, LONDON, 1736
Inverted bell-shaped and on spreading foot cast and chased with foliage on a matted ground, the lower body further cast and chased with foliage and scroll straps on a matted ground below the central reeded rib, with two leaf-capped scroll handles, the detachable cover similarly cast and chased and with a foliage-cast baluster finial, engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked under foot and on cover bezel, the base further engraved with a scratchweight '82=1'
13 in. (33 cm.) high
80 oz. 19 dwt. (2,518 gr.)
The arms are those of Bridges with Shirley in pretence for John Bridges (d.1763) of Cobham, Surrey and his second wife Mary (d.1747), daughter and co-heir of Sir Richard Shirley, 2nd Bt. of Preston, Sussex and widow of Thomas Western III (c.1693-1733), whom he married in 1736. Although the couple had a number of children they all died in infancy. Bridges' brother Brook Bridges (1679-1727/28) of Goodneston, co. Kent was created a baronet in 1718.

Provenance

Florence J. Gould; Sotheby's, Monaco, 26 June 1984, lot 1222.

Literature

The Glory of the Goldsmith, Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, 1989, pp. 104-105.
B. Carver-Wees, English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, New York, 1997, pp. 444-446.

Exhibited

Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Silver by Paul de Lamerie in America, 1956, no. 28.
London, Christie's, The Glory of the Goldsmith, Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, 1989, no. 74.

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Lot Essay

The date of this cup and of a pair of salvers, also by de Lamerie, 1736, that are now in the collection of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (B. Carver-Wees, op. cit., pp. 444-446, no. 326) suggests that these pieces were wedding presents.

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