Object Image

Monteith

Unknown Artist

The arms, probably added later, most likely are intended to represent those of Paul Souchay de la Merie and his wife, Constance Roux, Huguenots who emigrated to England. Their son, Paul de Lamerie, became a noted English goldsmith.

Credit: Gift of George D. Widener and Mrs. Eleanor Widener Dixon, 1958

1686-87

Silver

19.4 cm

58.7.67a, b

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