MARK OF BENJAMIN PYNE, LONDON, 1718

Details

A GEORGE I SILVER SALVER
MARK OF BENJAMIN PYNE, LONDON, 1718
Octafoil form with up-turned rim, raised on octafoil foot skirt, engraved with coat-of-arms, marked on underside
14 5/8 in. (37.2 cm.) diameter; 50 oz. 16 dwt. (1,580 gr.)

Provenance

Acquired from Stuart and Turner, London, February 1954.

Literature

D. Fennimore et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Decorative Arts, New York, 1992, vol. IV, p. 391, no. 436 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

Cecil Turner showed us a photo of this waiter during one of her annual trips to New York. We bought it because we liked its shape and have used it a great deal ever since. Subsequently, we purchased a smaller waiter of the same period from James Robinson (No. 437) and chose a much smaller one (No. 461) from my mother's estate in 1960. - David Rockefeller. (D. Fennimore et al., p. 391).

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