Style: Silver, Furniture, Ceramics
Style: Silver, Furniture, Ceramics
Property from an Important Southern Collection
A GEORGE II SILVER INKSTAND, PAUL DE LAMERIE, LONDON, 1741
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April 22, 03:56 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Southern Collection
A GEORGE II SILVER INKSTAND, PAUL DE LAMERIE, LONDON, 1741
tray with scroll rim with lion's masks and shells at intervals, engraved with arms below a baron’s coronet, supporters, and motto, with wells below the crested pots for seals, the pots with berried foliage linking draped masks and shells on matted ground within a cartouche-form band, on lion's paw feet
marked on base of tray, pots, and covers, with scratch weight 20=0
19 oz
591 g
length 8 in.
20.3 cm
Garrard & Co., Ltd., London, June 1989
The arms are those of Romney, for Robert 2nd Baron Romney, who married in 1742, Priscilla, daughter and heir of Charles Pym of the Island of St. Christopher.