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A George III silver bread basket

MAKER'S MARK OF DAVID WILLAUME, LONDON, 1734

细节
A George III silver bread basket
maker's mark of David Willaume, London, 1734
Oval and on pierced gallery foot, the sides and border pierced and chased to simulate basketwork, and with two corded bracket handles, the interior engraved with a vacant shaped demi-figure, shell, foliate scroll and diaperwork cartouche within a shell, scroll, strapwork and latticework border, marked on reverse, and engraved with scratch weight 56 = 12
15¼in. (38.5cm.) long
54ozs. (1,694grs.)

拍品专文

This form of basket was produced by a number of the leading Huguenot silversmiths of the early 18th century including Paul de Lamerie. A basket by de Lamerie, 1731, was recently sold from the collection of Mr and Mrs Charles W. Englehard, Christie's New York, 18 October 1995, lot 33. Another similar basket, also by de Lamerie is in the Gilbert Collection, Los Angeles County Museum, while other examples are at Chatsworth, in the collection of the Duke of Devionshire, at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and in the Alan and Simone Hartman Collection, New York