A GEORGE I SILVER TEA CADDY

细节
A GEORGE I SILVER TEA CADDY
LONDON, 1724, MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE

Rectangular, with a step-molded base, the hinged molded cover with a hexagonally-faceted finial, opening above a lock and keyhole, one side engraved with a coat-of-arms within an architectural cartouche with rustication and bird's heads, the other side engraved with a crest within a similar cartouche, marked under base and cover, Britannia standard marks--5 1/8in. (13.02cm.) high
(13oz.)
来源
Christie's London, May 16, 1979, lot 149.
出版
Michael Clayton, Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver, Oxford, 1985, p. 113, fig. 12.

拍品专文

The arms are those of Sharpe impaling those of Cartwright.