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Silver Sauce Boat - Lion Mask and Paw Feet - Pairpoint Brothers
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Reference: S1588
Period: George V
Year: 1934
Silversmith: Pairpoint Brothers
Place: London
Price: $ 350.00
Weight: 303 grams
Dimensions: Length 18,5 cm Height 9,5 cm
Condition: Excellent, perfect in every way, no dents or scratches.
Description: Magnificent silver sauce boat, with three fabulous applied lion mask and paw feet. The sauce boat is traditional shape, has a gadrooned rim and double scroll handle, with leaf cap. The boat is very heavy and is extremely good quality, it is a pleasure to hold and use. The hallmarks are clear, but the maker's mark is only partially struck, but still clear enough to determine. This is a replica of an earlier style, the design is a typical Paul de Lamerie design, circa 1740-1745. De Lamerie often used the applied lion mask and paw feet. Pairpoint Brothers worked between 1879 and 1937. To quote Culme in "Directory of Gold and Silversmiths, pg 355", "of the place occupied by the four Pairpoint Brothers in the silver world, little is necessary to be said, for their silver mark may be seen in every retail silver merchant's window in London. It is admitted on all sides by experts, sometimes with a sigh of regret, sometimes with a grin of malice, that Pairpoint copies of ancient patterns are dangerously near being indistinguishable from the originals".
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Silver sauce boat - lion mask and paw feet
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Lion and Paw
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Lion mask detail
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Double scroll handle with leaf cap
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View from top - gadrooned rim
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Comparison view - silver sauce boats, one on left
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sillver hallmarks
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Maker mark - pairpoint brothers
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Scale, pairpoint brothers silver gravy boat
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