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AN IMPORTANT GEORGE II SILVER TRAY 

Mark of Paul de Lamerie, London, 1735 
Shaped rectangular on four bracket feet, cast and chased with strapwork, husks and flowerheads, engraved with a band of scrolls, shells and latticework and with crests at the corners and a similar central cartouche enclosing a coat-of-arms, the molded raised incurved border applied with tied reeding, marked on reverse

Liddell impaling Delme for Sir Henry Liddell, 4th Baronet (1708-1784) and his wife Anne, only daughter of Sir Peter Delme, alderman and Lord Mayor of London, whom he married in 1735

24 5/8in. (62.5cm.) long; 156oz. (4852gr.)

Provenance

Robert R Young Foundation from the Estate of Anita O'Keefe Young, sold Sotheby's, New York 1985
His Excellency Mohamed Mahdi Altajir;
Christie's New York 2003
Koopman Rare Art

Exhibitions

The Glory of thr Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold & Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, 1989 (no.71, p.102)