A GEORGE II SILVER INKSTAND, PAUL DE LAMERIE, LONDON, 1741

Property from an Important Southern Collection
A GEORGE II SILVER INKSTAND, PAUL DE LAMERIE, LONDON, 1741

tray with scroll rim with lion's masks and shells at intervals, engraved with arms below a baron’s coronet, supporters, and motto, with wells below the crested pots for seals, the pots with berried foliage linking draped masks and shells on matted ground within a cartouche-form band, on lion's paw feet
marked on base of tray, pots, and covers, with scratch weight 20=0
19 oz
591 g
length 8 in.
20.3 cm

Condition Report:
Decoration softened at high spots and engravings rubbed. The pots each with a small repair to tops. Otherwise in good condition.

Provenance:
Garrard & Co., Ltd., London, June 1989