The Pleasure of Objects: The Ian & Carolina Irving Collection

The Pleasure of Objects: The Ian & Carolina Irving Collection

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A Pair Of George I Silver Serving Dishes, Paul de Lamerie, London, 1725, Britannia Standard

Auction Closed

January 30, 06:14 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

circular with gadroon and rosette-ovolo borders


60 1/4 oz; 1873 g

diameter 11 in.; 28 cm

Similar French Régence-style borders can be seen on a snuffers stand of 1727 (P.A.S. Phillips, Paul de Lamerie, 1938, pl. LVI) and from later in Lamerie's career on a pair of 1748 meat dishes with the Sneyd crest (Goldsmiths' Company exhibition, 1990, no. 118).