A GEORGE II SILVER SALVER

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A GEORGE II SILVER SALVER
MARK OF JOHN JACOB, LONDON, PERHAPS 1746
Shaped circular and on three openwork scroll feet, with an openwork Vitruvian scroll and foliage border, engraved with a coat-of-arms within a bird and rocaille cartouche and surrounded by chased foliage scrolls and lattice-work, marked on the back
12½ in. (31.8 cm.) diam.
36 oz. (1,121 gr.)
The arms are those of Packington impaled by another, probably Redman.

Specialist note

The salver, designed in George II French 'picturesque' fashion, evokes love's triumph and is engraved with an armorial cartouche wreathed by an antique-stippled border of flower-festooned and asymetrically scrolled reeds; while its scalloped and everted rim is antique-fretted in Vitruvian wave-scrolls that are also banded by foliated reeds.