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Lot Essay
The arms are those of Edward Warter Wilson and his wife, Frances Anne, daughter of the 2nd Baron Carbery and his wife, Frances, daughter of the 5th Viscount Fitzwilliam.
These cups and covers are part of an extensive toilet service engraved with the arms of Wilson and known to comprise nine pieces. The service includes a pair of scent bottles and a jewel casket sold from the Hahn Family Collection of English Silver, Christie's, New York, 23 October 2000, lots 283 and 284 and a pair of toilet boxes and a pair of toilet jars sold at Christie's, New York, 23 October 2000, lots 484 and 485.
With working dates spanning 1668-1703, Thomas Jenkins's career was long and varied and his works ranged from plain and weighty tankards to elaborately chased cagework cups and garnitures. Jenkins's work is known for its attention to detail, use of cast elements, good gauge, and adaptability to newer styles. As a leading silversmith, he presumably employed a number of journeymen, and later in his career served largely as a retailer, evidenced by his mark overstriking the marks of Huguenot craftsmen.
In the 1680s Jenkins produced numerous objects in the fashionable Chinoiserie taste, including porringers, salvers and toilet services. A 1681 Chinoiserie toilet service including eight boxes, jars and a clothes brush is illustrated in Beth Carver Wees, English, Irish and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1997, pp. 542-44. A further group of five Chinoiserie boxes and flasks, 1682, sold from the collection of Major D. Astley at Christie's London, 16 March 1949, lot 134. Jenkins is also known to have supplied single pieces to large services, such as a pair of silver-gilt pomade pots in 1683 for a Chinoiserie service sold at Christie's, London, 15 May 1963, lot 108 (see Arthur Grimwade and Judith Banister, "Thomas Jenkins Unveiled: A Leading Caroline Goldsmith" Connoisseur, July 1977, pp 173-81).
These cups and covers are part of an extensive toilet service engraved with the arms of Wilson and known to comprise nine pieces. The service includes a pair of scent bottles and a jewel casket sold from the Hahn Family Collection of English Silver, Christie's, New York, 23 October 2000, lots 283 and 284 and a pair of toilet boxes and a pair of toilet jars sold at Christie's, New York, 23 October 2000, lots 484 and 485.
With working dates spanning 1668-1703, Thomas Jenkins's career was long and varied and his works ranged from plain and weighty tankards to elaborately chased cagework cups and garnitures. Jenkins's work is known for its attention to detail, use of cast elements, good gauge, and adaptability to newer styles. As a leading silversmith, he presumably employed a number of journeymen, and later in his career served largely as a retailer, evidenced by his mark overstriking the marks of Huguenot craftsmen.
In the 1680s Jenkins produced numerous objects in the fashionable Chinoiserie taste, including porringers, salvers and toilet services. A 1681 Chinoiserie toilet service including eight boxes, jars and a clothes brush is illustrated in Beth Carver Wees, English, Irish and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1997, pp. 542-44. A further group of five Chinoiserie boxes and flasks, 1682, sold from the collection of Major D. Astley at Christie's London, 16 March 1949, lot 134. Jenkins is also known to have supplied single pieces to large services, such as a pair of silver-gilt pomade pots in 1683 for a Chinoiserie service sold at Christie's, London, 15 May 1963, lot 108 (see Arthur Grimwade and Judith Banister, "Thomas Jenkins Unveiled: A Leading Caroline Goldsmith" Connoisseur, July 1977, pp 173-81).