A GEORGE II SILVER SALVER, PAUL DE LAMERIE, LONDON, 1732 |

rectangular, incurved at the angles, on four cast scroll panel supports, the border engraved with sylized shells, scrollwork and four vacant cartouches connected by diaperwork panels, the centre engraved at a later date with a coat-of-arms within an elaborate cartouche incorporating winged cherub caryatids and husk festoons

Frank Brewer Bemis (1861-1935) of Beverly Farms and Boston, Massachusetts, former company director, bequeathed by him with 91 other examples of British silver to
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Sotheby’s, New York, 19 October 1999, lot 232

Kathryn C. Buhler, ‘The Frank Brewer Bemis Collection of Silver,’ Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, vol. 34, no. 205, October 1936, p. 82, fig. 10

Good clear marks to underside. Nice gauge. The four vacant cartouches to the corners have been erased and the engraving has most probably been refreshed. To the centre their is a faint outline where it has probably been patched and the whole plated over. The colour is therefore a bit bright especially to the underside. Otherwise good condition.
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