Hall marks on gold & silver plate

ENGLISH GOLDSMITHS. 57
1739-47. Marmaduke Daintrey, goldsmith and plateworker, of
Noble Street, entered his name in 1739. In 1747 he removed to the
"
Crown," in Old Street. The name of Marmaduke Daintrey occurs
in the parliamentary list of 1773, probably his son, a spoonmaker,
living at Hartley Row, Hants.
Thomas Gilpin, goldsmith, of Lincoln's Inn Gate, entered his
name at the <strong>Hall</strong> July 2, 1730. "The grand service of plate which
graced the royal table, at the banquet given by Sir Samuel Fludyer
at the Mansion House on Lord Mayor's Day, 1761, which the king
and queen honoured with their presence, was made new for the occasion
by Mr. Gilpin, with whom the city exchanged a quantity of old
plate for the new." (" Old English Plate," by W. I. Cripps.)
1740. John Barker, goldsmith, at the "Morocco Ambassador's
Head " in Lombard Street. His name is revealed to us by a shop
bill, engraved by Hogarth, having a Turk's head at the top.
1740. Bejijainiji Gurden, goldsmith, of Noble Street, first entered
his name at the <strong>Hall</strong> as plateworker in 1740. His name also
occurs in the list of 1773 at the same house. He died in 1804, having
been in business upwards of sixty years. He bequeathed three
hundred pounds to the Goldsmiths for the use of the poor.
1740. G. M. Moser, goldsmith and artist, born at Schaffhausen
in 1707; died in London 1783. He was a celebrated chaser on gold,
especially on the watch cases with emblematical figures in relief
much in vogue about the middle of the century jewellery, etc. He
wrote some works on the goldsmith's art and on painting. He was
the founder of the Academy of Painters in 1768, of which Sir
Joshua Reynolds was the first president. His daughter Mary, born
1744, was also an artist.
1742. Nicholas Sfrimont, of Compton Street, Soho, entered his
name at Goldsm.iths' <strong>Hall</strong> as plateworker in January, 1742. He
carried the modelling of shells, coral, insects, shell fish and rockwork
to great perfection in silver. A specimen of his plate, viz., a
pair of oval dishes, eleven inches in diameter by nine inches, beautifully
modelled in this manner, is preserved in the Royal Collection
at Windsor made in 1743. The same character of work was modelled
by his contemporary Paul Crespin, of Compton Street. Sprimont
is also celebrated as being the founder of the Chelsea porcelain
factory in 1750, under the patronage of the Duke of Cumberland
and Sir Edward Fawkener, of which, in 1755, he became sole
proprietor. The same taste was carried out by him in porcelain in
the well-known centrepieces of Chelsea china of the early period of
its existence. He was the writer of the memorial found in the Lansdown
MSS. without name or date, neither of which have until now
been discovered. He styles himself "undertaker of the Chelsea
manufacture of porcelain, a silversmith by profession, in which one
hundred persons are employed, and a nursery of thirty lads from
the parishes and charity schools who are bred to designing and
painting." (Chaffers's "Marks and Monograms on Pottery and
Porcelain," page 915.)