Sauceboat (one of a pair)

Paul de Lamerie British

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Placing additional silverware, like sauceboats and cruet stands, on the dining table enabled more intimate dinner parties with fewer attending servants. These relatively simple double-spouted sauceboats are typical of Paul de Lamerie’s early production.


An obituary in the London Evening Post described Paul de Lamerie as "particularly famous in making fine ornamental Plate, and…very instrumental in bringing that Branch of the Trade to the Perfection it is now in." His family was among the Huguenots who fled France for England after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. He became one of the most renowned silversmiths in eighteenth-century London, working with a significant workshop and taking on thirteen apprentices over the course of his career.

Sauceboat (one of a pair), Paul de Lamerie (British, 1688–1751, active 1712–51), Silver, British, London

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Sauceboat (one of a pair), Paul de Lamerie (British, 1688–1751, active 1712–51), Silver, British, London
Sauceboat (one of a pair), Paul de Lamerie (British, 1688–1751, active 1712–51), Silver, British, London

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