Live Auction 21907Bayreuth: A Connoisseur's Collection of English Silver and Gold Boxes
A GEORGE III GOLD CHATELAINE
Lot 120

A GEORGE III GOLD CHATELAINE

BY JAMES HUNT (FL. 1760-1782), LONDON, 1764

Closed7 July 2023

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A GEORGE III GOLD CHATELAINE
BY JAMES HUNT (FL. 1760-1782), LONDON, 1764
Formed of four connected panels, the belt clasp chased with David playing the harp to Saul with suspension loops on each side, below a trophy of arms and kingship, the central panel with Jonathan shooting arrows, and below a lion and ram, all within scrolled rocaille ornaments, applied on the reverse with an oval plaque engraved with initials IH, marked on loop
51/2 in. (140 mm.) long
1 oz. 17 dwt. (59 gr.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 27 May 2004, lot 6.

Specialist note


James Hunt was apprenticed with his father, William and entered his first mark as a smallworker on 30 July 1760 from King Street, Cheapside, where he appears as goldworker in the Parliamentary Report list of 1773. Heal records William Hunt & Son as goldworkers at the Golden Lion, King Street and James Hunt, goldworker, King Street, from 1760 to 1777. He further records the death of a James Hunt, goldsmith, of Ironmonger Lane in 1782.