Each of lobed compressed circular form with a chased rosette rim, all raised upon three lion paw feet with lion mask junctions. Each engraved to the side with a contemporaneous impaled coat of arms within a Baroque scroll and rocaille cartouche, flanked with a water reed to the dexter side and a laurel to the sinister. Gilt interior. Each fully marked underneath, maker’s mark registered 27th June 1739 (Grimwade 2204). (2) Diameter - 9.2 cm / 3.6 inches Weight - 471 grams / 15.14 oztNotes:The arms are for Hasell impaling Musgrave For Edward Hasell (1698-1781) who married Julia Musgrave (d.1778) on the 20th August 1735, with issue. Edward was the son of Sir Edward Hasell of Dalemain, Penrith, Cumbria (1642-1707) and his second wife Dorothy Williams (d. 1729) who were married on the 24 November 1696. Dorothy the daughter of William Williams, who is stated to have been "a Welshman born in Glamorganshire who acquired a good fortune by being Steward to the Howards of Greystock and other eminent families in the county". Sir Edward was knighted in 1699 where these armorial bearings were granted to him: Or on a fess az. betw. three hazel slips ppr. as many crescents arg. Julia the daughter of Sir Christopher Musgrave, Baronet of Edenhall (c.1632-1704) and his first wife Mary Cogan, the daughter of Sir Andrew Cogan, 1st Baronet (c. 1600-c.1660) of East India Company fame. Sir Christopher was Member of Parliament for Carlise firstly in 1661, then again in 1679, 1681, 1685. He was also Mayor of Carlisle in 1672, in 1677 he was governor of Carlisle. Edward became High Sheriff 1729, Deputy Lieutenant and Chairman of Grand Jury in Carlisle. He was involved with agricultural improvements and the breeding of new longhorn cattle. In 1740 Edward set about massive improvements of Dalemain, with the façade completed in 1744, but work didn't fully complete until 1780. The stables and barn are dated and inscribed over entrance E &JH 1738. The house remains in the state as directed by Edward. See Country Life 14, 21 and 28 March 1952, pp.736-9, 820-4, 908-11. A portrait of Julia by Alan Ramsey is now in the collection of Abbot Hall, Kirkland (AH 2024/80) Further reading: Wilkins. F. (2003), The Hasells of Dalemain: A Cumberland Family: 1736-1794, Kidderminster: Wyre Forest Press. Paul de Lamerie and the Hassell silver There is a significant group of silver marked for Paul De Lamerie and commissioned by members of the Hassell family in the 1730's. Eight small scalloped dishes (⌀ 6inches) of 1736 (four further 1755 by William Shaw and William Priest), engraved with these arms, sold Sotheby’s New York, 22 April 1998, lot 16, originally sold Major E. W. Hassell, Sotheby's, London, October 25, 1962 lot 176. A pair illustrated Hare, ed. (1990), Paul de Lamerie, The Work of England's Master Goldsmith, cat. no. 77, pp. 122-123. A pair matching larger circular dishes (⌀ 10 inches), also 1736, sold Christie's, New York, October 17 1996, lot 336. A coffee-pot of 1738 also engraved with the Hassell arms impaling those of Williams for Sir Edward and Dorothy, was sold Sotheby's, London, November 30, 1978, lot 185. An oblong salver of 1736 with the above arms sold: Major E.W. Hassell, Sotheby's, London, October 25, 1962, lot 177. The lion masks and feet on these salts differ from those used on many de Lamerie models, with the style on the present lot having a differing countenance, and lacking a tail wrapped around the foot. The presence of a lobed body and the chased rosette rim differ from an established Lamerie ‘lion paw’ salt model available from the 1730’s. These with circular body and gadrooned or rope twist rim, such as an ambassadorial example of circa 1735 in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (58.7.13–.16), also a later pair of 1742 sold Christie’s London, 3 June 2025, lot 630 (£4000), a set of four of 1743 sold Christie’s London, 29 Nov 2007, lot 562 (£12,500), and a ‘festooned’ set of four of 1750 sold Christie’s 6 June 2007, lot 90 (£15,000). Paul de Lamerie was born in the Netherlands in April 1688. He was the only child of Paul Souchay de la Merie, an officer in the army of William III, and his wife, Constance le Roux. They moved to London in 1689, settling in Berwick Street in Soho. Lamerie began his journey to become one of the greatest goldsmiths working in London in the 18th century in August 1703 with his apprenticeship with Pierre Platel, another member of the growing community of Huguenots living in London at the time. Lamerie registered his first mark as a largeworker on 5 February 1713 and opened a workshop in Windmill Street, near Haymarket.