Dinah Gamon

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Dinah Gamon (née Tillett[1]) was an English silversmith.

Gamon was married to largeworker John Gamon[2] at St Stephen Walbrook on 28 May 1726;[1] with him she had two sons, William and John.[3] After her husband's death she registered a mark of her own on 6 March 1740, giving a London address in Staining Lane near Goldsmiths' Hall. Her classification was that of largeworker, like her husband.[2]

A George II creamer of 1743 by Gamon is owned by the National Museum of Women in the Arts,[2] while a punch ladle of 1740-41 is in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.[4] During her career she also produced a number of pieces of communion plate.[5][6][7]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Silver Forums at 925-1000.com". www.925-1000.com. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b c Philippa Glanville; Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough; National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.) (1990). Women Silversmiths, 1685-1845: Works from the Collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Thames and Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-23578-2.
  3. ^ "Koopman Rare Art - Artist Details". www.koopman.art. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  4. ^ "Punch ladle, Dinah Gamon ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art". collections.artsmia.org. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  5. ^ John Newman (1983). North East and East Kent. Yale University Press. pp. 438–. ISBN 978-0-300-09613-2.
  6. ^ Wilfred Joseph Cripps (1894). Old English Plate: Ecclesiastical, Decorative, and Domestic, Its Makers and Marks : with 122 Illustrations, and Upwards of 2,500 Facsimiles of Plate Marks. J. Murray. pp. 417–.
  7. ^ Woodruff, C. R. (1902). "Church Plate in Kent". Archaeologia Cantiana. 25. Kent Archaeological Society: 190–. Open access icon