A Set of Four Irish George I Trencher Salts
A Set of Four Irish George I Trencher Salts
Dublin, circa 1715
Maker’s mark of John Hamilton
Diameter: 7.3 cm, 2.9 in
Weight: 438 g, 14 oz
The crest is possibly that of Bayley or Rumney.
The salts circular with bold rope gadrooned bodies. Additionally engraved with a lion crest charged with a heraldic mullet.
John Hamilton was free of the Dublin Goldsmiths' Company in 1709. This type of gadrooned trencher salt was first produced in England in the 1680s by Huguenot makers such as Pierre Harache; the Hartmans formerly owned a similar set of four by Thomas Prichard, London, 1701, see Huguenot Legacy, no. 16. A set of four trencher salts by John Hamilton are also mentioned in Tony Sweeney, Irish Stuart Silver, Dublin, 1995, no.1264 as being sold Christie's, London, 23 June 1920 for £120.
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