Object Description
An excellent early English silver footed salver with a broad gadroon border to the top and foot. Britannia standard silver*. To the centre is a hand engraved armorial for the Scott family within a decorative cartouche.
Weight 395 grams, 12.7 troy ounces.
Height 7.3cm. Diameter 24cm.
London 1699.
Maker Samuel Hood.
*Britannia standard silver.
17th century.
Marks. Stamped with a full set of English silver hallmarks on the top surface, lion mark on the foot.
Arms. These are the arms of the Scott family. 3 lion heads erased within a shield. Lion crest above with dexter hand holding a rose. Motto “Fortis et Placabilis” (translates as “Strong and Peaceful”).
*Britannia Standard silver. In 1696, so extensive had become the melting and clipping of coinage that the silversmiths were forbidden to use the sterling standard for their wares, but had to use a new higher standard, 95.8 per cent. New hallmarks were ordered, “the figure of a woman commonly called Britannia” and the lion’s head erased (torn off at the neck) replacing the lion passant and the leopard’s head crowned. This continued until the old standard of 92.5 per cent was restored in 1720.
Maker: Samuel Hood
Samuel Hood, London silversmith, apprenticed to Robert Cooper 1685, free 1693. Marks entered as largeworker, undated, probably 1697 on commencement of register. Livery 1705.
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