MARK OF JOHN MORTIMER AND JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1842

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A VICTORIAN SILVER SAUCEBOAT
MARK OF JOHN MORTIMER AND JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1842
Boat-shaped and on three foliage and rocaille cast feet, the sides part-fluted and chased and engraved with foliage and diaperwork, with cast horse handle, later engraved with initials 'SW' below a crown, marked underneath, further stamped 'Mortimer and Hunt London' and numbered '1138'
8 ¾ in. (22 cm.) long
26 oz. 2 dwt. (812 gr.)

Provenance

Karl-Friedrich, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (r.1828-1853), then by descent.

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Lot Essay

A nearly identical sauceboat by the same makers, hallmarked for 1843 and applied with the cypher and coronet of William, 7th Viscount Downe (1812-1857) is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum ( T. Schroder, British and Continental Silver in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2009, pp. 412-413).

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