ID 1387014
Lot 123 | PLATEAU EN ARGENT D'ÉPOQUE QUEEN ANNE
Estimate value
€ 10 000 – 15 000
Par Samuel Wastell, Londres, 1703
Rectangulaire à pans coupés reposant sur quatre pied-supports rivetés, uni les bords légèrement incurvés, gravé au centre d'armoiries sous cimier dans un cartouche d'enroulements feuillagés, poinçons sur le plateau: ville, titre, lettre-date (B) et maître-orfèvre; sur chaque pied-support: titre et maître-orfèvre, gravé sur le fond du poids 138:15
L. 53.8 cm. (21 ¼ in.)
3943 gr. (126 oz. 15 dwt.)
Les armoiries sont celles de de Ligne de Harlaxton affrontées à Gregory de Nottingham.
Provenance
Vente Sotheby's, Londres, 23 octobre 1958, lot 144.
The property of an American Collector; Christie's, Londres, 5 mars 1997, lot 162.
S.J. Phillips.
Collection Onzea-Govaerts, Belgique.
Further details
A QUEEN ANNE SILVER TRAY
MARK OF SAMUEL WASTELL, LONDON, 1703
Rectangular with cut corners and resting on four riveted bracket feet, engraved in centre with a coat-of-arms in foliate rococo cartouche with crest above, engraved underneath with scratch weight 138:15, fully marked underneath and on bracket feet
The arms are those of de Ligne of Harlaxton impaling Gregory of Nottingham.
Unusually, the crest appears to correspond to the arms on the right—that is, those of the wife—rather than to those of the husband. It is highly likely that the illustration was copied from a seal where the arms were reversed, with the husband’s arms appearing on the right instead of the left.
The Harlaxton estates came into the Gregory family through the marriage of Anne Orton (1713–1788) to Gregory Gregory Esq. (1696–1758) of Rempstone Hall, Nottinghamshire, in 1738. Anne was the great-granddaughter of Sir Daniel de Ligne Kt. (d. 1656).
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Silver |
| Place of origin: | England, Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Category: | Dishes and trays |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Tables |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Silver |
| Place of origin: | England, Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Category: | Dishes and trays |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Tables |
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