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Thomas Parr II

Posted by Koopman rare art

13 May, 2020

Thomas Parr II

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A pair of George I silver Tazze, London 1716
Diameter: 9 inches (22.5 cm)

Weight: 24 oz (753 g)

Circular on trumpet foot, with gadrooned rim, engraved with a coat-of-arms, each marked near rim and on foot

The arms are those of Shelley impaling Bysshe, for John Shelley (1666-1739) and Helen (1667-1742), younger daughter and co-heir of Robert Bysshe of Fen Place, co. Sussex, who he married in 1692.

Provenance: Anonymous sale [S. J. Attenborough]; Christie's, London, 17 December 1912, lot 72.
Artist Biography:
Son of Thomas Parr I. Free by patrimony, 5 March 1733. First mark entered 9 February 1733. Address: Cheapside. 'Goldsmith'. Second and third marks, 19 June 1739, same address. Livery, January 1750. Court, February 1735. Warden, 1771-3. Recorded by Heal only as if a continuation of his father's life. He appears as Thomas Parr, goldsmith, Whetstone in the Parl. Report list 1773, presumably on retirement.

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