A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER SALVERS
Lot 776 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 

A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER SALVERS

MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE, LONDON, 1747

Closed28 November 2012

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A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER SALVERS
MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE, LONDON, 1747
Each shaped square and with incurved angles, on four scroll, shell and cartouche feet, the partly beaded rims applied in the centre with shells flanked with foliate scrolls, the centre with border chased with scrolling foliage, flowers, fish scales and rocaille, the centre chased and engraved with a coat-of-arms within rococo cartouche, each marked on reverse, further engraved with scratchweight '44=15' and '44=19'
12 in. (31 cm.) wide
86 oz. 14 dwt. (2,697 gr.)
The arms are those of Jodrell impaling Vanderplank, for Gilbert Jodrell (c.1714-1772) and his second wife Anne, daughter of Samuel Vanderplank, whom he married on 28 June 1747. Gilbert Jodrell was the second son of Paul Jodrell Esq., of Duffield, Derbyshire. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in February 1730 where his father was Master of the Bench. (2)

Mr. and Mrs. Schuyler Clark.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Parke Bernet, New York, 4 June 1974, lot 66.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Geneva, 13 May 1986, lot 130.

Specialist note

Gilbert Jodrell was the second son of Paul Jodrell of Lincoln's Inn and his wife Judith, elder daughter of Gilbert Sheldon. The arms of Jodrell were originally granted to Paul Jodrell Esq., of Duffield, co. Derby, the Clerk to the Honourable House of Commons (College of Arms Ms: Grants 5/241). The arms of Vanderplank were granted to Samuel Vanderplank of Tokenhouse Yard in 1727 (College of Arms Ms: Grants 8/21). Gilbert and Anne Jodrell had three daughters, Ann, Hannah and Elizabeth. Only the eldest, Anne (b.1748) survived childhood. She married Christopher Clitherow of Bird Place, co. Hertford, in 1776.