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WORKS OF ART FROM THE COLLECTION OF HUGH AND MARION SASSOON
A JAMES II SILVER PORRINGER AND COVER
MARK OF JOHN DUCK, LONDON, 1685
Details
A JAMES II SILVER PORRINGER AND COVER
MARK OF JOHN DUCK, LONDON, 1685
Plain circular and on spreading foot, with scroll handles, the cover with reeded rim and baluster finial, the body engraved with a coat-of-arms, the cover with a crest, marked on body and cover, with scratchweight 20=
6 in. (15.3 cm.) high
19 oz. 14 dwt. (613 gr.)
The arms are those of Otway impaling Braithwaite of Ambleside, for Sir John Otway Kt. (1619-1693) of Ingmire Hall, co. Westmorland and his second wife Elizabeth Braithwaite, daughter of John Braithwaite, niece and heir of Thomas Braithwaite of Ambleside, whom he married after 1664. Sir John was educated at Sedburgh School, where his father was headmaster. He then attended St. John’s College, Cambridge, becoming a fellow in 1643. He was a member of Gray’s Inn and fought in the Royalist army. He served as M.P. for Preston and held many legal appointments in Lancaster. He commissioned another porringer from John Duck in 1683, which was presented by his son Braithwaite Otway to St. John’s College. It is illustrated in E.A. Jones, The Old Plate of Cambridge Colleges, Cambridge, 1910, pp. 79-80, pl. LXXXVII. His three sons all died unmarried and Ingmire Hall passed in the female line to John Upton (b. 1718), M.P. for Westmorland.
MARK OF JOHN DUCK, LONDON, 1685
Plain circular and on spreading foot, with scroll handles, the cover with reeded rim and baluster finial, the body engraved with a coat-of-arms, the cover with a crest, marked on body and cover, with scratchweight 20=
6 in. (15.3 cm.) high
19 oz. 14 dwt. (613 gr.)
The arms are those of Otway impaling Braithwaite of Ambleside, for Sir John Otway Kt. (1619-1693) of Ingmire Hall, co. Westmorland and his second wife Elizabeth Braithwaite, daughter of John Braithwaite, niece and heir of Thomas Braithwaite of Ambleside, whom he married after 1664. Sir John was educated at Sedburgh School, where his father was headmaster. He then attended St. John’s College, Cambridge, becoming a fellow in 1643. He was a member of Gray’s Inn and fought in the Royalist army. He served as M.P. for Preston and held many legal appointments in Lancaster. He commissioned another porringer from John Duck in 1683, which was presented by his son Braithwaite Otway to St. John’s College. It is illustrated in E.A. Jones, The Old Plate of Cambridge Colleges, Cambridge, 1910, pp. 79-80, pl. LXXXVII. His three sons all died unmarried and Ingmire Hall passed in the female line to John Upton (b. 1718), M.P. for Westmorland.
Provenance
Sir John Otway Kt. (1619-1693) of Ingmire Hall, co. Westmorland.
A Gentleman [J. Leonard Thompson]; Christie's London, 30 January 1929, lot 80 (£373 to S[mith]).
with S. J. Phillips Limited, London.
Mrs Doris Herschorn (d. 1975) and by descent to her son Hugh Sassoon.
A Gentleman [J. Leonard Thompson]; Christie's London, 30 January 1929, lot 80 (£373 to S[mith]).
with S. J. Phillips Limited, London.
Mrs Doris Herschorn (d. 1975) and by descent to her son Hugh Sassoon.
Brought to you by
Amelia Walker
Director, Specialist Head of Private & Iconic Collections