MARK OF JOHN CHARTIER, LONDON, 1706

Details

A QUEEN ANNE SILVER TEAPOT, STAND AND LAMP
MARK OF JOHN CHARTIER, LONDON, 1706
Octagonal, the plain baluster shaped teapot with wood handle and facetted spout, the hinged cover with baluster, the stand on four scroll feet with turned straight wood handle and detachable lamp and cover, the teapot engraved with a coat-of-arms, the lamp with a crest, marked on teapot body, base and cover, the stand marked on frame, inside burner and on burner cover
7 1/2 in. (19 cm.) high
gross weight 30 oz. 6 dwt. (943 gr.)
The arms and the crest are those of Warner of London.

Provenance

The Estate of Mark Haas; Christie's, New York, 11 April 1995, lot 412.
Charles Lane Poor III (1919-2005), of Washington, D.C.,
Charles L. Poor Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 26 October 2005, lot 77.
With Alastair Dickenson, London.
Benjamin F. Edward III (1931-2009) of St. Louis, business man, collector and philanthropist.
The Collection of Benjamin F. Edwards III; Christie's, New York, 26 January 2010, lot 201.

Literature

I. Harris, The Price Guide to Antique Silver, Woodbridge, 1969, p. 127.

Special notice

This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.

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Lot Essay

JOHN CHARTIER
Huguenot goldsmith John Chartier (d. after 1723), is believed to have immigrated with his father, goldsmith Jean Chartier of Blois, France, before 1688, and is recorded in the Reconnaissances of the French Church of the Savoy on 17 May 1688. He was naturalized in 1697 and became a Freeman of the Goldsmiths' Company by redemption on 13 April 1698. Chartier entered his first mark later that month from Heming's Row, St. Martin's Lane, where he appears to have remained until 1715. His most accomplished apprentice was Pezé Pilleau, who was apprenticed to Chartier in 1710, and later married his daughter on Christmas Day in 1724.

The majority of documented works by Chartier are dated to the period between 1698 and 1723, with a significant number of these works extant today. Timothy Schroder notes that Chartier's early works 'are generally in a fully developed and dignified Huguenot style betraying his presumed French training'. See Timothy Schroder, British and Continental Gold and Silver in the Ashmolean Museum, vol. 3, 2009, p. 1236.

Chartier's body of work has been consistently well-represented in notable private collections over the past three centuries, as well as museum and institutional collections throughout the United Kingdom and the United States. Significant works include a 1698 communion cup at Christ Church, Oxford (illustrated E. A. Jones, Catalogue of the Plate of Christ Church, Oxford, 1939, pl. 5.), and a pair of 1699 two-handled silver-gilt cups and covers made for John Holles (1662-1711), Duke of Newcastle, presently in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum (Schroder, op. cit., 2009, vol. 1, pp. 180-182). Further works include a pair of 1732 two-handled sauceboats and a 1709 pear-form teapot on stand at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, see B. Carver Wees, English, Irish & Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, New York, 1997, pp. 163-164, 313-314. A 1703 coffee pot by John Chartier was sold in the Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, Christie's, New York, 9 May 2018, lot 166. This pot was presented as a Christmas gift from Mr. Rockefeller to his wife in 1970.

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