A George II silver tankard, Paul de Lamerie, London, 1744
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
baluster shaped, on a gadrooned foot, with similar decoration to the body, engraved with a coat-of-arms, with a scrolling handle adorned with grapes, the thumbpiece with a snail, the hinged cover with chased decoration of grapes, with a grape finial decorated with a salamander, the underside with red inked number 1948.163, fully hallmarked,
28cm, 11in. high
1630gr., 52¼oz
Given to Yale by Mrs James B. Neale in memory of her husband James B. Neale B.A, 1896,
deaccessioned by the Yale University Art Gallery to benefit future acquisitions,
Nadeau's Auction Gallery, Connecticut, 1 January 2019, lot 500,
with SJ Shrubsole, New York, 2020
Only two other tankards with the mark of Paul de Lamerie are known: an example hallmarked for 1727,1 and another for 1716.2
The arms are those of Heathcote of Normanton, Rutland and Stamford, Lincolnshire, quartering Rayner, with a mark of cadence (a crescent), with Moyer in pretence, for John Heathcote (1727?-29 July 1795), of Luffenham, Rutland, second son of Sir John Heathcote, 2nd Bt. of Normanton. He was admitted to read law at Lincoln’s Inn on 4 May 1744 and in 1764 married Lydia (d. 14 August 1822), daughter and co-heiress of Benjamin Moyer Esq. of Low Layton. Heathcote was Sheriff of Cambridge and Huntingdon in 1767/68, and M.P. for Rutland from 1790 until his death.
Two silver-gilt toilet boxes marked for Parker & Wakelin, London, 1766 and engraved with Heathcote's arms and those of his wife in pretence, are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.3
1 Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Carver and Casey, 1978, cat. no. 30)
2 The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection, on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum (LOAN:GILBERT.650-2008)
3 Object Numbers: 2008.543.15 and 2008.543.16
