Three-Footed Silver Salver

Artisan: Pete Acquisto
Date: 2024
Inscriptions: stamped with maker’s mark ‘A’ and ‘ster[ling]’ (on the back)
Dimensions: 5 x 25 mm. / 1 x ¼ inches (height x diameter)
Inventory number: 2025.008
Intended Room: Entrance Hall
Category: Silver

Provenance: Bought from the Acquisto Silver website in January 2025

A salver is a necessity in any self-respecting grand household. Where else are visitors to leave their calling cards in the hall? And how else is the butler supposed to deliver post and billets doux? This splendid example is by Pete Acquisto, doyen of miniature delights, and it’s based on a Paul Revere original from 1761, which Pete’s website says is on view in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (I haven’t been able to find it on their online database, otherwise I’d link it). I love everything about it, from the graceful fluted or scalloped edge, to the crest ever-so-delicately engraved into the centre.