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A GEORGE II SILVER SALVER

Lot 135
07.07.2023 11:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
£ 70 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 992639
Lot 135 | A GEORGE II SILVER SALVER
Estimate value
£ 70 000 – 100 000
A GEORGE II SILVER SALVER

MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE, LONDON, 1739

Shaped circular, on four feet cast with grapevines, the cast openwork border with auricular ornament, grapevine and four drunken Silenus masks at intervals, engraved in centre with a coat-of-arms within an elaborate rococo cartouche, marked on reverse

20 1/8 in. (51.1 cm.) diameter

123 oz. 6 dwt. (3,836 gr.)

The arms are those of Elliston impaling Gibbon, for Captain Edward Elliston (1696-1747), of South Weald, Essex, and his wife and cousin Catherine Gibbon (d.1743), daughter of Edward Gibbon of London, whom he married in 1733.





Provenance

Captain Edward Elliston (1696-1747), of South Weald, Essex, by descent to his daughter,

Catherine Elliston (1735-1804), wife of Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot (1727-1804), of Port Eliot, Cornwall.

The Hon. Nellie Ionides (1883-1962), of Buxted Park, Sussex.

The late The Hon. Mrs. Nellie Ionides, Sotheby's, London, 4 July 1963, lot 200 (£2,150 to Kaye).

A Swiss Private Collection; Christie's, New York, 23 May 2007, lot 169.



Literature

F. Davis, 'Talking about Salerooms', Country Life, 25 July 1963, vol. 134, iss. no. 3464, p. 211.



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This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
Artist:Paul de Lamerie (1688 - 1751)
Place of origin:United Kingdom
Auction house category:All other types of objects
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