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Lot Essay
This bowl is designed in the Neo-Classical style popular in the late 18th century and relates to a series of the baskets of the same period.
A pair of baskets on stands by John Wakelin and William Taylor is illustrated in Robert Rowe, Adam Silver, pl. 66 and another by William Frisbee is illustrated in Michael Clayton, Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver, p. 9, pl. 8.
A further example ordered from Wakelin and Taylor by Thomas, 3rd Viscount Weymouth, later 1st Marquess of Bath (1734-1796), was sold from Longleat, Christie's London, 14 June 2002, lot 401. It is recorded in the 'Wakelin and Taylor Gentleman's Ledger' as a 'Fine chased fruit Bason and Stand', which cost the 3rd Viscount £87 10s and a further 16s for the four engraved crests and coronets.
A pair of baskets on stands by John Wakelin and William Taylor is illustrated in Robert Rowe, Adam Silver, pl. 66 and another by William Frisbee is illustrated in Michael Clayton, Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver, p. 9, pl. 8.
A further example ordered from Wakelin and Taylor by Thomas, 3rd Viscount Weymouth, later 1st Marquess of Bath (1734-1796), was sold from Longleat, Christie's London, 14 June 2002, lot 401. It is recorded in the 'Wakelin and Taylor Gentleman's Ledger' as a 'Fine chased fruit Bason and Stand', which cost the 3rd Viscount £87 10s and a further 16s for the four engraved crests and coronets.