Georgian style 12" silver salver

Georgian style 12" silver salver

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Reference

3962

This is a classically styled silver salver with a shaped gadroon border in the Georgian style and mounted on four ball and claw feet.

The term salver was used in England from the mid-seventeenth century to denote a flat tray without handles, usually made of silver. Like this one, some salver designs feature supporting feet - usually three or four.

The word 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:

Diameter 310 mm / 12 "
Weight 1043 g (33.53 troy ozs)
Year

1934

Place

Birmingham

Condition

Excellent

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