Huguenot interest - A pair of George II sterling silver dessert spoons, London 1741 by Louis Ourry (reg. 21 Aug 1740)

Hanoverian pattern, with single drop bowl, each engraved with a crest of a boar’s head couped. Each fully marked.

Length – 17 cm / 6.75 inches

Weight – 74 grams / 2.38 ozt

Louis Simon Ourry (1717-1779) trading from New street near Covent Garden his undated will and codicil was sworn by John Malliet, Paul de Lamerie’s son-in-law, in 1779, Louis Simon’s brother Paul Henry Ourry (1719-1783) was married to Charity Treby, eldest daughter of one of Paul de Lamerie’s great clients the Rt. Hon. George Treby MP (1727-1805). His toilet set by de Lamerie is in the Asmolean Museum, Oxford. Elizabeth Ourry would have been either Louis Simon’s wife (nee Mott, died 1786) or more probably his sister Elizabeth (1725-1811). Arthur Grimwade wrote “his work is extremely rare, if indeed any has survived” (1976).