Silver & Objects of Vertu - Day 2 - 26th January 2022 - 26th January 2022

Lot 905

A Charles II silver footed salver

Estimate £3,000 - £4,000 | Hammer £2700

+ Buyers Premium

Description

A Charles II silver footed salver,

maker's mark DB, probably for Daniel Beverley, London 1679,

circular form, rope-work border, the centre engraved with the arms of Dr. Richard Baylie, within foliate mantling, on a raised circular part-marked foot with a matching border, the underside inscribed 'This for Richard Dighton of Clifford Christned (sic) y 6th of March 1664 From his Grand Father Dr. Richard Baylie, Dean of Sarum', diameter 26.8cm, height 8cm, approx. weight 19.5oz.

Provenance:

Purchased from Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Silver Sale, 4 June 1997, lot 344.

A Private Collection, and then by family descent to the current owner.

For maker's mark see Mitchell, D. Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London, The Boydell Press, 2017, pages 268 and 269.

Richard Baylie (1585 - 27 July 1667) was President of St John's College, Oxford from 1633 to 1648 and 1660 to 1667. He was also twice Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, Archdeacon of Nottingham and Dean of Salisbury from 1635-1667.