MARK OF PETER ARCHAMBO, LONDON, 1744

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A GEORGE II SILVER SALVER
MARK OF PETER ARCHAMBO, LONDON, 1744
Shaped circular, on four tall scroll feet with mask joins, the border of heavy cast openwork rococo design with masks representing the four seasons, and with Bacchic panthers, grapevine and scrolls, the field finely engraved with a coat-of-arms within a pictorial cartouche centering a figure of Britannia and with ships and marine motifs, with a putto clerk writing initials JPF on the cargo packages, with wood backing and six nuts and screws, marked on reverse
25 5/8 in. (65.4 cm.) diameter

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Christie's, London, 17 March 1999, lot 97
With M.S. Rau, New Orleans

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The arms are those of Barker, possibly for John Barker, Esq. (d. 1787) of Goodman Fields, Middlesex. The cartouche has a mercantile theme with ships, a globe and the figure of Commerce, depicted as a woman holding a ship's rudder.

John Barker was the Governor of the London Assurance Company with connections to the West Indies and the sugar trade. Goodman's Fields, where Barker lived, was an area noted for refineries which processed sugar on its arrival from the West Indies. The 1911 edition of Victoria County Histories of Middlesex, vol. 2, p. 130, notes that "The business of the sugar refiner...used to be carried on in the neighborhood of Goodman's Fields, the factories being congregated within a circle of a half-a-mile radius immediately eastward of Aldgate."