IMPORTANT SET OF GARRARD GILT STERLING SILVER PLATES: THE FIRST JEWISH BARONET

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PRESENTED IS A MAGNIFICENT SET OF NINE GILT SOLID SILVER PLATES CREATED
FOR SIR ISAAC LYON GOLDSMID (1778-1859)-- THE FIRST NON-CONVERT ENGLISH
JEW TO RECEIVE THE ENGLISH HEREDITARY TITLE OF HONOUR, 'THE BARONET', IN
1841;
1st. BART GOLDSMID WAS A PROMINENT LONDON BANKER AND FINANCIER. HE
MARRIED HIS COUSIN IN 1808.
GOLDSMID ESPOUSED LIBERAL CAUSES AND SOCIAL REFORM IN  CIVIL RIGHTS. HE
DRAFTED THE 'JEWISH DISABILITY BILL' FIRST IN 1830 AND THEN IN 1833. HIS
RELENTLESS DEVOTION TO THE CAUSE, PROVED  INSTRUMENTAL IN THE 'JEWISH
EMANCIPATION' AND THE SUBSEQUENT RISE OF SUCH FIGURES OF THE FAITH
AS LIONEL de
ROTHSCHILD (THE FIRST MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, 1847) AND DAVID
SALOMONS
(THE FIRST LORD MAYOR OF LONDON, 1855);
MOTIVATED BY THEIR BELIEF THAT A NON-ORTHODOX CONGREGATIONAL
GOVERNANCE WOULD BE MORE ACCOMODATIVE OF JEWISH EMANCIPATION THAN
THE SOCIALLY-STATIC CONGREGATIONS HELD AT BEVIS MARKS; THE
MORE PROSPEROUS ASHKENAZI FAMILIES, HEADED BY GOLDSMID, FOUNDED THE
WEST LONDON SYNAGOGUE OF BRITISH JEWS IN 1840;
FURTHERMORE, GOLDSMID WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDING MEMBERS OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (LATER, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON);
THE GENTLEMENS MAGAZINE MAKES THE FOLLOWING REFERENCES TO GOLDSMID:
23 AUGUST 1841, PAGE 311:
THE QUEEN HAS BEEN PLEASED TO GRANT THE DIGNITY OF A BARONET TO THE FOLLOWING
...ISAAC LYON GOLDSMID OF St. JOHN's  LODGE, REGENTS PARK AND OF THE WICK , BRIGHTELMSTONE. Esq..., AND;
6 JUNE 1846 (PART 2), PAGE 84:
SIR ISAAC LYON GOLDSMID, BART. TO ACCEPT AND USE IN THIS COUNTRY THE
TITLE OF BARON De GOLDSMID AND da PALMEIRA, WHICH THE QUEEN OF PORTUGAL
HAS BEEN PLEASED TO CONFER UPON HIM IN MANIFESTATION OF THE IMPORTANT
SERVICES RENDERED BY HIM ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS TO THE PORTUGESE NATION,
AND ALSO TO BEAR CERTAIN ADDITIONAL ARMORIAL BEARINGS GRANTED TO HIM
BY THE ROYAL DECREE OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF PORTUGAL.
ISAAC's ELDEST SON, SIR FRANCIS HENRY GOLDSMID 2nd BARONET (1808-1878),
WENT ON TO BECOME THE FIRST JEWISH BARRISTER IN ENGLAND AND WAS MADE
QUEEN'S COUNSEL IN 1858. IN 1860, HE ENTERED THE PARLIAMENT AS MEMBER OF
READING CONSTITUENCY, A POSITION HE HELD FOR THE REMAINDER OF HIS LIFE.
THIS MAGNIFICENT SET OF NINE SILVER-GILT DESSERT PLATES WERE
COMMISSIONED BY ISAAC LYON GOLDSMID FROM ROBERT GARRARD II, OF THE
COMPANY R & S GARRARD, IN THE SAME YEAR THAT QUEEN VICTORIA APPOINTED
GARRARD TO THE POSITION OF CROWN JEWELERS,1843-- DISPLACING RUNDELL,
BRIDGE & Co. THE GARRARD FIRM HAD EARLIER, 1830, BEEN APPOINTED AS
ROYAL GOLDSMITHS TO KING WILLIAM IV;
THESE APPOINTMENTS
HAVE SINCE LED TO THE CREATION
OF NUMEROUS PIECES OF SILVERWARE AND
JEWELLERY FOR THE ROYAL FAMILY
THROUGHOUT THE 19th AND THE 20th
CENTURIES INCLUDING: PRINCE ALBERT's
CENTERPIECE, QUEEN VICTORIA's
SILVER AND DIAMOND CROWN IN 1870, THE
IMPERIAL CROWN
OF INDIA IN 1911, THE
CROWN OF QUEEN MARY FOR HER
CORONATION AND THE
CROWN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH;  .
THE SPLENDID MANNER IN WHICH THE PRESENT SET IS DESIGNED TO RESEMBLE
GOTHIC ROSH HASHANAH SEDER PLATES
AS WELL AS THE IMPECCABLE
CRAFTSMANSHIP VOUCH FOR THE HIGH REGARD
ROBERT GARRARD's UN-EQUALLED
GENIUS IN SILVER ARTISTRY WAS TO BE HELD
IN THE YEARS TO COME;
EACH PLATE OF CIRCULAR SHAPE, THE WIDE SCALLOPED RIM DECORATED WITH
JEWELLED STRAP-WORK , THE CENTER ENGRAVED WITH GOLDSMIDT's COAT OF ARMS,
CREST AND MOTTO;
FULLY MARKED;
THE UNDER-SIDE BEARING THE INITIALS OF A PROMINENT AMERICAN ART
COLLECTOR TOGETHER WITH '1960' ON FIVE PLATES AND  '1961' ON FOUR-- WHICH WE BELIEVE PERTAIN TO
THE YEARS OF ACQUISITION;
(PROVENANCE WOULD BE SUPPLIED TO THE PURCHASER);
EXCELLENT CONDITION-- SOME WEAR TO GILT AS EXPECTED WITH AGE AND SOME FINE LINES, NO SPLITS OR DENTS, THE HALLMARKS WELL-STRUCK AND DEEP ON ALL NINE PLATES;
DIAMETER: 9 1/2";
WEIGHT: 189 6/10 STANDARD OUNCES;
(5,375 GRAMS)
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