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It became highly sought-after and was soon copied by other London silversmiths. Benjamin Godfrey was closely associated with the Huguenot community of goldsmiths through marriage and may have been of Huguenot origin.\r\n\r\nWhen King Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685, Huguenots (French Protestants) were forced to leave the country. Many were craftsmen who settled in London.  Their technical skills and fashionable French style ensured the luxury silver, furniture, watches and jewellery they made were highly sought after.  Huguenot specialists transformed English silver by introducing higher standards of craftsmanship. They promoted new forms, such as the soup tureen and sauceboat, and introduced a new repertoire of ornament, with cast sculptural details and exquisite engraving.\r\n\r\nSir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes.  Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996.","physicalDescription":"Silver-gilt two-handled cup and cover resting on a spreading foot which is cast and chased with bands of shells, scrolls and foliage on a punched matted ground. The lower part of the body has applied scroll-and-foliage motifs. The double scroll handles are cast and chased with scrolls and shells. The body of the cup is engraved with the coat of arms of  Annesley quartering Chandos and another for Richard Altham who succeeded as 6th Earl of Anglesey in 1737. The cover is engraved with the Anglesey crest and is domed in two stages. Its applied cut card decoration matches that on the base of cup. The finial is of baluster, scroll, shell-and-foliage form.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Godfrey, Benjamin","id":"A22394"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"AAT251917"},"note":"There is no record of Benjamin Godfrey relating to apprenticeship or freedom. Benjamin probably worked as a journeyman for Elizabeth Buteux, Née Pantin, who was first married to Abraham Buteux, whom she survived to carry on the business which she established in Norris Street, 15 November 1731. Benjamin Godfrey married Elizabeth Buteux on 6th February 1732.\r\nBenjamin entered his first mark as a largeworker on 3 October 1732, giving the address occupied by his wife's former business at the sign of the Hand Ring &amp; Crown, Norris Street, Haymarket, London. 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Between 1719 and 1758, the duty of sixpence per ounce levied on all plate for assay added as much as ten percent to the price of the silver object. Many goldsmiths were tempted to evade paying the duty by cutting out marks from a small, recently assayed piece and inserting them into a new and larger one. Footed objects such as this cup, presented the goldsmith with a good opportunity to conceal the join under the foot. X-ray investigations confirmed that the area bearing the marks on this piece is a separate sheet of metal. On some objects such as salvers, this deception was hard to carry out because the solder line around the insertion would be exposed."}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1738-1739","earliest":"1738-05-29","latest":"1739-05-28"},"association":{"text":"hallmarked","id":"x32454"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"32","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"34.2","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"16.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"12.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Weight","value":"2450","unit":"g","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Updated with measurements taken 18/08/08","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"The cover is engraved with the crest of the arms of Annesley, Viscount Valentia <i>A moor's head in profile ppr wreathed about the temples argent and azure.</i>\nThe cup is engraved with the arms of Richard Annesley, 6th Earl of Anglesey. The arms of Annesley quartering Chandos and another (argent, three estoiles), for Richard, 6th Earl of Anglesey, Baron Annesley, Viscount Valentia, Baron Mountmorris, and 5th Baron Altham (c. 1690-1761).  The arms of Annesley <i>Paly of six argent and azure over all a bend gules. </i>The argent, three estoiles may represent Annesley's first wife Anne Prust of Monkleigh near Bideford, Devon. The supporters Dexter: <i>A Roman knight in armour or, short sleeves and apron gules, face arms and legs bare, the last sandalled argent; on his head a helmet or cap, gold, on the top therof three feathers of the second, holding in his exterior hand a shield, theron a female head</i>; sinister <i>a Moorish prince in armour or, short sleeves and apron gules, face, neck arms and legs purpure, on the latter boots gold, behind him a sheaf of arrows purpure fastened by a pink ribbon wreathed round the temples argent and azure in his exterior hand a bow purpure.</i>\n\nThe Annesley motto VIRTUTIS AMORE","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"The Annesley motto VIRTUTIS AMORE (By the Love of Virtue)","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""},{"content":"London hallmarks for 1738-39","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Marked under the base"},{"content":"Mark of Benjamin Godfrey","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Marked under the base"},{"content":"Sterling standard","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Marked under the base"}],"objectHistory":"Provenance: Richard, 6th earl of Anglesey.  Mrs.  L.  Vachell, sale, Sotheby's, lot 111, December 13, 1962.  Sale, Sotheby's, lot 169, May 9, 1963.  Sale, Sotheby's, lot121, November 28, 1963.  Sale, Christie's, lot 169, September 24, 1985.  Purchased from Partridge (Fine Arts) Ltd., London, 1985.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Silver-gilt cup and cover, Benjamin Godfrey, London, 1738-9","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Schroder, Timothy. <u>The Gilbert collection of gold and silver</u>, Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 1988, cat. no. 59, pp. 234-6.  ISBN.0875871445"}],"production":"Maker’s mark of Benjamin Godfrey under the base.  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The design became highly sought after and was soon copied by other London silversmiths, demonstrating the speed at which fashionable forms spread.\n\r\nLondon, England; Benjamin Godfrey (active 1732–41)\r\nGilded silver\r\nEngraved with the arms of Richard Annesley, 6th Earl of Anglesey (about 1690–1761)\r\nMuseum no. 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