Name/Title
PlatterEntry/Object ID
2012.021.003Tags
Needs location check, Needs new photographyDescription
Jeremiah King (working, 1723-1748)
London
Meat platter
1745-1746
Silver
Transfer from the estate of Emily Farrow
This eighteenth-century turtle-shaped platter has a gadrooned border and is engraved with a coat of arms that depicts a divided cartouche with a leopard on one side and bales of hay on the other. On both sides of the coat of arms are fleur-de-lis. On the opposite side is a fleu-de-lis flanked by two seahorses.
Shop sign had a picture of a swan.
Sir Ambrose Heal, The London Goldsmiths 1200-1800: a record of the names and addresses of the craftsman, their shop-signs and trade-cards (London: David & Charles Reprints, 1972).
"Jeremiah King seems to have been one of the most important London furnishers of silver mounts for fire-arms from about 1738 onwards. Owing to the absence of earlier marks, it is impossible to estimate the extent of his activity before this date ..."
J.F. Hayward, The Art of the Gunmaker: Volume Two, Europe And America 1660-1830 (London: St. Mary's Press, 1963).
Marks (http://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/index.htm)
(registered Sep 1723) JK below crown
(registered Jun 1736) JK below dragon (animal of some sort)?
(registered Jun 1739, used from 1740-1748) JKing
Apprenticed to William ScarlettCollection
Historic Charleston FoundationAcquisition
Accession
2012.021Source or Donor
Estate of Emily Ravenel FarrowAcquisition Method
GiftCredit Line
Transferred from the estate of Emily FarrowMade/Created
Artist
Jeremiah King (working, 1723-1748)Date made
1745 - 1746Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
PlatterNomenclature Primary Object Term
Dish, ServingNomenclature Sub-Class
Serving VesselsNomenclature Class
Food Service T&ENomenclature Category
Category 04: Tools & Equipment for MaterialsCreated By
admin@catalogit.appCreate Date
December 26, 2012Updated By
sferguson@historiccharleston.orgUpdate Date
March 31, 2023