Salver

Date1742-1743

Artist/Maker Thomas Rush

MediumSilver (Sterling)

DimensionsH(rim): 1 5/8"; D(rim): 12 1/4"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1954-514

DescriptionSalver: circular; cast half round bead molding composed of six repeated reversed cyma curves forming rim on short inclined concave sides of conforming plan; broad flat base supported on four short cast reversed double C-scroll legs terminating in hoof feet. Coat of arms engraved in center of base. The arms and the escutcheon of pretence sharged thereon would appear to be those used by William Turner of Whitefriars, Canterbury, co. Kent, and of his wife Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Thomas Scott of Lyminge, co. Kent, whom he married on June 3, 1718 at St Mary Bredin in Canterbury. He was buried there on June 7, 1751, and his wife was buried there on April 21, 1768. The arms of the husband would not appear to ever have been officially recorded. The arms shown on the escutcheon of pretence are those of the family of Scott of Scot's Hall and of Lyminge, co. Kent, as recorded at the Heralds' Visitation of Norfolk in 1664. (Information provided by Dr. Conrad Swan, The Rouge Dragon, College of Arms, London, in 1965.)
InscribedArms of William Turner of Whitefriars, Canterbury, Kent, and Elizabeth Scott of Lyminge, Kent, whom he married on June 3, 1718, engraved in center. The arms of the escutcheon of pretense are those of the Scott
family.
MarkingsMaker's mark "T.R" in script letters within a rectangle, leopard's head crowned, lion passant, and date letter on underside of base.
ProvenanceVendor: Garrard & Co. Ltd., London (purchased from Mrs. Burgess, Sutton on Sea, Lincolnshire, 1953)