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On display at V&A South Kensington
Silver, Room 65, The Whiteley Galleries

The Sympson Salver

Salver
1717-1718 (Made)
Artist/Maker
Lukin, William (Maker)
Place of origin
London (Made)

Circular salver on a trumpet-shaped foot. Engraved with the coat of arms of Richard Ingram, 5th Viscount Irwin of Temple Newsam and his wife Lady Anne Howard.


Object details

Category
Silver
Object type
Salver
TitleThe Sympson Salver (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Silver-gilt
Silver
Gilded
Brief description
Salver, silver-gilt, London hallmark for 1717-1718, made by William Lukin
Physical description
Circular salver on a trumpet-shaped foot. Engraved with the coat of arms of Richard Ingram, 5th Viscount Irwin of Temple Newsam and his wife Lady Anne Howard.
Dimensions
  • Height: 11.4cm
  • Diameter: 36.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • The coat of arms of Ingram Ermine on a fess gules three escallops or impaling the arms of Howard a bend between six cross crosslets fitchee argent on the bend an escutcheon or, charged with a demi lion rampant pierced through the mouth with an arrovw, within a double tressure flory counterflory gules The dexter supporter representing Ingram is a griffin purpure the sinister supporter representing Howard is a lion argent charged on the breast with a crescent azure (Richard Irwin, 5th Viscount Ingram married Lady Anne Howard in about 1717)
  • Town mark: London
  • I.Sympson sculpt.
    Translation
    Engraved by Joseph Sympson
Object history
Acquisition RF: 47 / 1262
Bibliographic reference
V&A Catalogue, 1965, pl.109, pp.9 Oman, C., English Engraved Silver, pp.110 Hayward, J F., Huguenot Silver, 1959, pl.93 Hernmarck, The Art of the European Silversmith, pl. 475 Lomax, J., The Grandfather of Plate, 400 Years of Silver at Temple Newsam, 1990 Cover 12-13 Oman, C., English Engraved Silver, pp.110
Collection
Metalwork Collection
Accession number
M.41-1947

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Record createdJune 1, 2004
Record URL
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