A MID-19TH CENTURY PAP FEEDER
LATTEY BROS. CIRCA 1850
Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: The Fiona Buchanan Indian Silver Collection | Wednesday 4th March at 10am
Description
Of rounded boat form, to a ball terminal, the body set with centrally hinged lid
Dimensions
17.5cm long, 6.5oz
Footnote
Literature: Literature: Wilkinson, Wynard Indian Colonial Silver, European Silversmiths in India (1790-186) and their marks, 1973, p. 86 illus. A108.1
Note: Lattey Brothers were formed in 1842, from the earlier firm of Pittar Lattey & Co, and continued until they were succeeded in 1855 by Allan & Hayes. It was formed and variously constituted of Arthur P Lattey, Robert J Lattey, Joesph Hayes and Dugald Lattey.
They were obviously held in high regard as in 1848 they receive the honour of supplying the present gifted by Field Marshal Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, the Right Honourable the Governor General of India during his farewell tour of the country before leaving post in January 1848.
In the same year they advertise promoting the wide variety and quality of their ‘Working Establishment for Silver Articles’ which they list including ‘richly chased silver breakfast sets, waiters, salvers, racing and presentation cups and vases, Bread baskets, tankards, candelabra, saucepans, beer mugs, inkstands, …… spoons and forks of every pattern manufactured’.