8" scroll & shell silver salver
8" scroll & shell silver salver
1947
An early George V silver salver made in the style of a design first made popular in the 1760s. The pie-crust-shaped, applied border is decorated with scrolls and scallop shells and the salver is mounted on three typical ball-and-claw supports.
The word salver derives from the Latin salvare meaning to save. Originally, food or drink intended for royalty would be initially tasted by a servant for signs of poison before it reached the royal top table. Being served on the salver indicated that this process had taken place and the food and drink was now fit for a king. Salvers later became commonplace in aristocratic and wealthy homes and Samuel Pepys is recorded as an owner of a salver, signifying his high social standing.
Dimensions:
1910
Sheffield
Excellent
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