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国内拍卖首页 > 齐仕阁Chiswick Auctions > 银器收藏 > Lot 573
Mildmay Service – An important pair of George I Britannia Standard silver dinner plates, London 1725
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2021年06月11日 开拍 / 2021年06月09日 截止委托
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Mildmay Service – An important pair of George I Britannia Standard silver dinner plates, London 1725 by Paul de Lamerie (Hertogenbosch 1688 - London 1751) Of circular form with moulded rims, the edges engraved with a quartered coat of arms with another on an escutcheon of pretence, all within Baroque scroll work reserved with rustication. The opposing side with a crest of a chapeau winged, the points of the wings surrounded by a band, therefrom pendent a mortar in fess, the whole surmounted by an etoile, all surmounted by an Earl’s coronet. Engraved to the reverse with numbers 14 and 34 and with scratch weights 20:18 and 20:15 respectively. Fully marked to the reverse. (2) Diameter – 24 cm / 9.5 inches Total weight – 1118 grams / 35.94 ozt ? The crest is for Mildmay ? The arms are for Mildmay quartering Fitzwalter with Schomberg on an escutcheon of pretence For Benjamin Mildmay, 19th Baron Fitzwalter (1672-1756) created Earl Fitzwalter in 1730 Benjamin Mildmay. He married on the 18th June 1724, he married Fredercia Darcy (d.1751), daughter of the Duke of Schomberg. They took up residence in Schomberg House, Pall Mall as their London home as well as the Mildmay family home of Moulsham Hall, Essex. ? The Mildmay service was once an extensive service which to historical benefit was particularly well recorded in contemporary inventories and accounts which survive to this day. As a vanished service, the reassembly of its contents relies on the rich paper trail from the aforementioned records and examples resurfacing at auction over previous decades. In recent writings however, there has been much debate as to whether the service was once gadrooned or if it had a moulded edge. The surviving dishes/plate from the service are known to date from three years; 1725, 1737 and 1744, the vast majority from the first two dates. The principal concern with the moulded edge is that all the numerous surviving examples with this edge have between a 13% and 15% discrepancy in their present weight as compared to their scratch weights as inscribed on the reverse of each plate in the service. The few known examples with gadrooned edges have also led some to believe that it is the gadrooned edge which was added later (B.Carver Wees, English, Scottish and Irish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, New York, 1997, P. 153 ‘The Second Course dish sold at Christie’s New York on 15 October 1985 is similarly catalogued, “border altered.”). Principally the set of twelve dinner plates marked for London 1725 with a moulded edge in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown are the main point of comparison where it can be deduced from the cataloguing that there is an overall variance in scratch weight versus the present weight of 13.51%. A known gadrooned example, a Second Course Dish London 1725, sold Christies London 6th June 2017 (and is probably that which was also sold Christies New York 15th October 1985) the difference between its weights is 3.1%. There is also another second course dish London 1737 but with a moulded rim, sold Bonhams London 9th Feb 2011 Lot 321, whose difference in weight is listed as 13.8%. A further set of twelve dinner plates marked for London 1737 were sold at Sotheby’s Park-Bernet, New York 26th October 1976 Lot 406A (and again at the same house on 12th October 1978 lot 343A), they are described as ‘possibly altered at a slightly later date’. Carver Wees notes that “these suspicions were largely based on the plates having lost nearly 15 percent of their original scratch weight. Subsequent testing of the metal, however, indicates no discrepancy.” (Wees P.153) A set of eleven plates with gadrooned rims marked for 17337 were sold in these rooms 31st Oct 2017, lot 500. It was put forward as research against contemporary documents for the Mildmay service that the eleven plates in that lot can demonstrate that the original service as ordered in 1725 and enlarged in 1737 were all originally gadrooned and that all examples with a moulded edge of these dates have been reformed at a later date thus accounting for their percentage loss in weight and that no metal was added only subtracted in the reforming. ? The first service was ordered in 1725 shortly after their wedding, which is likely to relate to an undated entry in the accounts of Mildmay as prepared by Paul de Lamerie which are as follows; ? To 12 Dishes & 3 Dozen of plates 1260 oz. : 15 dw. At 6 s. 2 d. p. oz. ￡388 14s. 6d Fashion 18d. p oz. ￡94 10s. 0 d. Engraving 3s. p. pc. ￡74 s. 0d. (The Accounts of the Right Hon’ble the Earl Fitzwalter prepared by Paul de Lamerie, (Essex Record Office D/DM-F13) ? This indicates the original size of the service but does not provide weights or a physical description. Mildmay served as the Commissioner of Excise between 1720 and 1728, upon the death of his brother in 1728 he was created Baron Fitzwalter. It was also in 1728 the remodelling of Moulsham Hall commenced, from a Tudor structure to a grander house in the Palladian fashion, this was to occur over a number of years. Thereafter on the 14th of May 1730 Bejamin Mildmay was made Earl Fitzwalter and Viscount Harwich, this almost certainly links to another account from de Lamerie that is likely but indistinctly dated 1st April 1731 ? ‘To engraving the Coronett [sic] on 3 dozen of Nurled plates 6d. p. pc. ￡17 s. 0d.’ (The Accounts of the Right Hon’ble the Earl Fitzwalter prepared by Paul de Lamerie, (Essex Record Office D/DM-F13) ? This reference to ‘nurled plates’ is the earliest reference to these plates being gadrooned, as nurling or nulling is another term for gadrooning. As this is before the expansion of the service in 1737 this would suggest that this concerns the original service which as previously stated consisted of twelve dishes and three dozen plates. The expansion of the service in 1737 can most certainly be linked to Mildmay’s appointment as Treasurer of the Household and as such he had an entitlement of 1000 oz of plate for his own use from the Jewel House. It can be found in the delivery book of the Jewel House that on the 16th of March 1737 Lord Fitzwalter took delivery of: ? ‘Delivd one doz. Gadrooned plates --- 249:10’ (C. Hartrop, The Huguenot Legacy – English Silver 1680 – 1760, from the Alan and Simone Collection, Thomas Heneage, London 1996, Page 112) ? It is worth noting that a subsequent record in this delivery book for December 29th 1738 lists two soup tureens, one of which is illustrated and discussed by Christopher Hartrop as part of the Hartman collection (p.110-115), which also has a gadrooned edge. While this tureen bears the mark of Henry Hebert, Christopher Hartrop notes “Herbert was probably a retailer, rather than manufacturer, of silver. There is no record of his apprenticeship or freedom of the Goldsmiths’ Company…” (Ibid, Page 115) and thus the concept of him being supplied by de Lamerie is a sensible one. Hebert was one of the witnesses of the inventory taken on the 22nd June 1739 of Lord Fitzwalters plate. This inventory lists other known pieces from the Mildmay service such as the four “Sallet Dishes” of 1738 also obtained from Herbert as a part of the 1000 oz allowance from the Jewel House (Sold Sotheby’s New York 26th October 2005, Lot 47) ? [Full essay available at www.chiswickauctions.co.uk]

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