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Medium: Silver, parcel gilt. Dimensions: Length: 4 1/4 in. ... WI, fleur-de-lis below two mullets above, in shaped shield (maker's mark for David Willaume, ...
Apr 27, 1995 · George 11 Silver Flat Chased Coffee Pot, Dated 1735, London, David Willaume 11 H 8.5 in Dm 4 in Antique George I Silver Bleeding Bowl Porringer 1717 Britannia Std
David Tanqueray,son of David Tanqueray of St Lo, Normandy, apprenticed to David Willaume 1708, free 1722. 1st mark as largeworker 1713. Married Anne, David Willaume’s daughter in 1717. Second mark (sterling) 1720. Subordinate Goldsmith to the King 1729 and 1732. Tanqueray’s surviving work is relatively rare, a remarkable piece is his gilt wine cistern of 1718 at Chatsworth demonstrating ...
A Pair of George II Silver Sauce Boats, David Willaume Jr., London, 1738. of shell form, with waved molded rim, a cast shell beneath lip, leaf capped multiple scroll handle, mounted at the top with a shell and the base with a sexfoil, engraved with a crest, on shaped molded foot. marked on bases. 33 oz 10 dwt. 1041.9 g. length 8 ¼ in. 21 cm
David Willaume II, apprenticed to his father the master Hugeunot silversmith David Willaume I in 1707, free 1723. First and 2nd marks entered as largeworker in 1728, roughly the time of his father’s retirement. 3rd mark 1739. He became High Sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1737. Goldsmith to the King 1744 and 1746. Died 1761.
A pair of 1705 by David Willaume, from the Fitzwilliam Collection, were exhibited London, Seaford House, Queen Charlotte's Loan Exhibition of Old Silver, 1929, no. 455 and a pair by Willaume made for Lord Strafford circa 1710 was sold Christie's, London, 23 May 1990, lot 230. Bertie Guest was born at Dowlais, near Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales.
Early life. Anne Tanqueray was born in 1691 to David Willaume I, a prominent Huguenot silversmith, who had come to London from France in 1685.. Career. Tanqueray's husband established a workshop, and it is likely that Tanqueray created items bearing her husband's mark.
