The Duntze Tea Tray
The Duntze Tea Tray
A George II ‘Four Seasons’ Rococo Salver
London, 1747
Maker’s mark of John Swift
Diameter: 67 cm, 26.3 in
Weight: 6,033.4 g, 194 oz
Bearing the marital coat-of-arms of Duntze impaling Hawker for John Duntze merchant of Exeter and his wife Elizabeth Hawker
The salver was the inherited by the son Sir John Duntze, 1st Baronet.
Sir John Duntze, 1st Baronet (c. 1735 – 5 February 1795) was an English merchant, banker and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1795.
Duntze was the son of John Duntze merchant of Exeter and his wife Elizabeth Hawker, daughter of James Hawker or Hawkes of Luppitt, Devon.
He was a clothier and general merchant at Exeter. He married Frances Lewis, daughter of Samuel Lewis in or before 1765. In 1776 he founded a bank in London with John Halliday and William Mackworth Praed.
Duntze served as Member of Parliament for Tiverton from 1768 until his death in 1795. He was created baronet in 1774.
Sir John Duntze, 1st Baronet
The Duntze Baronetcy, of Tiverton in the County of Devon, is now a dormant title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 8 November 1774 for John Duntze, an Exeter wool merchant and Member of Parliament for Tiverton. The family was of German descent.
John Alexander Duntze, grandson of the first Baronet and great-grandfather of the presumed eighth Baronet, was an Admiral in the Royal Navy.
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