After David Willaume

After David Willaume, a Victorian cast silver-gilt cream jug,

by Robert Garrard, London 1877,

shell form, the scroll handle with scales and a grotesque mask, the front with a cherub mask below the spout, the body supported by a reclining mythical animal on a raised oval foot with a foliate border, height 9.5cm, approx. weight 4.2oz.

See Hartop, Christopher The Huguenot Legacy: English Silver 1680-1760: from the Alan and Simone Hartman Collection London 1996, p. 288 for a silver gilt example marked by David Willaume II, London 1721-22. A number of similar cream jugs are recorded, most of which are unmarked, but all those which are bear the maker s mark of David Willaume II.

A similar jug was sold in these rooms, 29 October 2019, lot 505.