Cruet frame
Paul de Lamerie (1688 - London 1751)
Category
Silver
Date
1723 - 1724
Materials
Silver
Measurements
10.2 x 15.9 x 11.0 cm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 852085.1
Summary
One of a pair of cruet frames for bottles from an epergne, by Paul de Lamerie, London, 1723/4. The frame is formed as two irregular octagons on four cast scroll and pad feet. The upper and lower mouldings are cast in two halves and the sides are pierced and engraved with foliate scrolls and female masks. The cast scroll handle, which is ribbed and capped and has trelliswork on matted grounds on the outer edges at their extremities, is soldered to the frame at the joint between the two octagons. Bridging the horizontal upper gap between the octagons is a slip of sheet silver engraved with a C-scroll cartouche between leaves and on a matted panel with incurving ends. Heraldry: Within the cartouche of the bridge between the octagon of the frame the Hervey crest beneath an earl’s coronet has been engraved c.1737.
Full description
For more detail see master object.
Provenance
Nicholas Leke, 4th Earl of Scarsdale (d. 1736); 1st Earl of Bristol (bought, as part of an epergne, 1737, at the Scarsdale sale); by descent to the 4th Marquess; accepted by the Treasury in lieu of death duties in 1956 and transferred to the National Trust.
Credit line
Ickworth, the Bristol Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Underside: Hallmarks: Fully marked with maker’s mark ‘LA’ star and closed crown above fleur-de-lis below (third mark, unregistered - see Susan Hare (ed.), Paul de Lamerie, At the Sign of the Golden Ball, London, 1990, p. 29), date letter ‘H’, Britannia and lion’s head erased. Underside: Scratchweight: ‘No 1 [/] 20=11’
Makers and roles
Paul de Lamerie (1688 - London 1751) , goldsmith