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CAPTION: William Pitt, 2nd Earl Amherst (1805-1886), illustrated in The National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Personages, London, 1829, vol. II
A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT INKSTAND
MARK OF R. & S. GARRARD, LONDON, 1878
Details
A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT INKSTAND
MARK OF R. & S. GARRARD, LONDON, 1878
Formed as Bernini's fountain Il Tritone; the shaped rectangular base with rounded ends and fitted with four inkwells with hinged shell covers, the center formed as four dolphins, their tails supporting two shells and a triton with raised arms holding a conch shell, the dolphins framing an Earl's armorials, marked under base, nuts, conch shell and each inkwell shell, also stamped R & S GARRARD PANTON ST. LONDON
87 in. (43.2 cm); 299 oz. 10 dwt. (9334 gr.)
The arms are those of Amherst, as borne by William Pitt, 2nd Earl Amherst (1805-1886), of Montreal, Sevenoaks, Kent, who married in 1834 Gertrude, 6th daughter of the Hon. Hugh Percy, Bishop of Carlisle and brother of the 5th Duke of Northumberland. The second Earl was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, and was M.P. for East Grinstead, 1829-1832.
MARK OF R. & S. GARRARD, LONDON, 1878
Formed as Bernini's fountain Il Tritone; the shaped rectangular base with rounded ends and fitted with four inkwells with hinged shell covers, the center formed as four dolphins, their tails supporting two shells and a triton with raised arms holding a conch shell, the dolphins framing an Earl's armorials, marked under base, nuts, conch shell and each inkwell shell, also stamped R & S GARRARD PANTON ST. LONDON
87 in. (43.2 cm); 299 oz. 10 dwt. (9334 gr.)
The arms are those of Amherst, as borne by William Pitt, 2nd Earl Amherst (1805-1886), of Montreal, Sevenoaks, Kent, who married in 1834 Gertrude, 6th daughter of the Hon. Hugh Percy, Bishop of Carlisle and brother of the 5th Duke of Northumberland. The second Earl was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, and was M.P. for East Grinstead, 1829-1832.
Provenance
Probably William Pitt, 2nd Earl Amherst (1805-1886), of Montreal, Sevenoaks, Kent
Literature
A. Phillips and J. Sloane, Exhibition catalogue, Antiquity Revisited: English and French Silver-Gilt, London, 1997, p. 94, no. 25.
Exhibited
New York, Christie's, Antiquity Revisited: English and French Silver-Gilt from the Collection of Audrey Love, September 1997