Victorian Sterling Silver Presentation Salver with Tasmanian Interest
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A Victorian sterling silver two handled presentation salver, of Tasmanian Interest, maker's mark Edward Barnard & John Barnard / London, circa 1855, of shaped oval outline, with a foliate cast border and handles, above four scroll feet, bearing an armorial crest and inscribed 'This service of plate / of the Value of one hundred & fifty Pounds / Was Presented to / Mr Roddam Hulke Douglas / by His friends and Fellow Colonists / as a mark of the high regard in / which he is held by them. / Westbury 12th March / 1855,' within a foliate engraved surround, total weight of silver approximately 3935grs, 72.5 cm wide. Provenance: by descent through the Douglas family, History: Roddam Hulke Douglas (1817-1902) was a British born colonist, who migrated to van Diemen's Land from his native Fareham, Hampshire, in 1832. Douglas settled in the Dunorlan district, near Deloraine, northern Tasmania and rose to prominence in agriculture, grain-buying, carrying and coaching in the Westbury district. Douglas' close ties and standing within the district led him to be appointed a Justice of the Peace and a long-serving member of the Westbury Council. This salver was presented to Douglas on his department from van Diemen's Land for a tour of Europe in 1855. On his return to the colony, Douglas lived in other locations in Northern Tasmania, including Evandale and lived in Launceston at the time of his passing in 1902.
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- Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.
- Armorial / Armourial - Bearing a coat of arms. Coats of arms came into general use by feudal lords and knights in in the 12th century, and by the 13th century, arms had spread beyond their initial battlefield use to become a flag or emblem for families in the higher social classes of Europe. They were inherited from one generation to the next. When a family crest is used on individual items of silver or furniture it is an indicator of the aristocratic standing of the family represented.
Armorials were also used to decorate mass produced ceramic souvenir ware by such companies as Goss, Carlton & Shelley, and in these cases the coats of arms displayed were of boroughs and cities. - Victorian Period - The Victorian period of furniture and decorative arts design covers the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. There was not one dominant style of furniture in the Victorian period. Designers used and modified many historical styles such as Gothic, Tudor, Elizabethan, English Rococo, Neoclassical and others, although use of some styles, such as English Rococo and Gothic tended to dominate the furniture manufacture of the period.
The Victorian period was preceded by the Regency and William IV periods, and followed by the Edwardian period, named for Edward VII (1841 ? 1910) who was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India for the brief period from 1901 until his death in 1910. - Circa - A Latin term meaning 'about', often used in the antique trade to give an approximate date for the piece, usually considered to be five years on either side of the circa year. Thus, circa 1900 means the piece was made about 1900, probably between 1895 and 1905. The expression is sometimes abbreviated to c.1900.
- Engraving - The method of decorating or creating inscriptions on silver and other metal objects by marking the surface with a sharp instrument such as a diamond point or rotating cutting wheel.
- Foliate - Decorated with leaves or leaf-like forms.
- Salver - A plate or tray used for the formal offering of food, drink, letters or visiting cards, usually of silver plate, silver or silver-gilt. Large, heavy, oblong or oval silver salvers evolved into what we know as trays in the 18th century. Small, flat salvers are known as waiters.
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