Salver with Detatchable Foot
Artist:
David King
(Irish, active from 1690, died 1737)
Culture: Irish
Period: Stuart dynasty
Dynasty: House of Stuart
Date: 1709/1710
Place made:Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
General region:Europe
Medium: Sterling silver
Dimensions:
height: 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm)
diameter: 14 in. (35.6 cm)
base diameter: 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, bequest of John V. Rowan, Jr.
Object number: 2004.13.244.a-b
Inscribed: Engraved: coat-of-arms of Caldwell impaling Haywood for Charles Caldwell (b. 1707), solicitor to the customs in Dublin, who married Elizabeth Haywood in 1732.
Inscribed: The Glorious Memory of King William/and the Illustrious house of Hanover
Exhibition History: "The Genius of Irish Silver: A Texas Private Collection," Colonial Williamsburg, DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Gallery, June 10-October 12, 1992 and San Antonio Museum of Art, April 16, 1993-April 16, 1994
Published References
Davis, J. D. (1993). The Genius of Irish Silver: A Texas Private Collection. San Antonio, TX: San Antonio Museum of Art. Reprinted by the San Antonio Museum of Art with the Permission of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation - Williamsburg, Virginia 1991 (ISBN: 1-883502-00-4), pg. 46
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