A GEORGE III SILVER CUP AND COVER

MARK OF THOMAS HEMING OVERSTRICKING ANOTHER, PROBABLY EMICK ROMER, LONDON, 1767

Details

Of baluster form, cast and applied fruiting grape vines and scrolls, one side of the body applied with a putti holding a wreath, the other side with a putti holding a butterfly, the foot with lion's' masks hug with drapery swags and with fruiting vines, later engraved with a coat-of-arms, the cover with a crest, marked on underside and in cover
17 3/4 in. (45.1 cm.) high
121 oz. 19 dwt. (3,793 gr.)
The arms are those of Baldwin as born by the Baldwins of Wolferton, co. Norfolk.
Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 9 November 1999, lot 69.
Lot Essay

The overall form of many of the cups created by Thomas Heming, one of which features on his trade card, derive from French designs of the 1740s, most notably those of Pierre Germain (1720-1783), of which Heming was aware, as shown by his use of ewer and tureen forms on his trade card, taken from the work of Jacques Roettiers and Edme-Pierre Balzac. He cup designs show the influence of French designs created by by Edmund Bouchardon (d.1762) and published by Gabriel Huquier (d.1772) in his Premier Livre de Vases, Paris, 1742. This cup also shows the stylistic influence of the rococo works from the 1730s and early 1740s of London goldsmiths such as Frederick Kandler (fl.1735-1778), Paul de Lamerie (1688-1751) and George Wickes.