THE KETTLE WITH MARK OF RICHARD GREEN, LONDON, CIRCA 1705, THE STAND WITH MARK OF DANIEL GARNIER, LONDON, CIRCA 1695

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A ROYAL QUEEN ANNE SILVER KETTLE ON WILLIAM III STAND FROM THE CUMBERLAND PLATE
THE KETTLE WITH MARK OF RICHARD GREEN, LONDON, CIRCA 1705, THE STAND WITH MARK OF DANIEL GARNIER, LONDON, CIRCA 1695
The kettle of plain bombé shape with wood overhead scroll handle, the domed cover with cut-card work and with baluster finial, the part-fluted spout with hinged cap; the circular stand on three scroll feet, the sides pierced and applied with scroll supports and side wood handle, the plain lamp with cover and detachable kettle ring, engraved on the stand, lamp, kettle ring and cover with the cypher AR with Royal crown above, the kettle engraved with the Royal arms, Garter motto, Royal Crown and monogram AR, marked on base of kettle, cover, stand and lamp
overall height 13 in. (33 cm.)
gross weight 124 oz. 8 dwt. (3,870 gr.)
The arms and cyphers are for Queen Anne (1702-1714) of Great Britain and Ireland.

Provenance

Queen Anne (1665-1714) of Great Britain and Ireland, then by descent to,
Prince Ernest Augustus of Great Britain, 1st Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover (r.1837-1851), then by descent to his son,
King George V of Hanover, 2nd Duke of Cumberland (r.1851-1866, d. 1878) and then by descent to his son,
Crown Prince Ernst Augustus of Hanover, 3rd Duke of Cumberland (1845-1923) and then by descent to his son,
Prince Ernst Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1887-1953), sold privately in 1924.
With Crichton Brothers, London, from 1924.
A New York Estate; Christie's, New York, 17 April 1996, lot 193.

Literature

'Old English Plate from the Duke of Cumberland's Collection', The Connoisseur, November, 1924, p. 252, illustrated p. 253.
H. Avray Tipping, 'The Silver Plate of the Duke of Cumberland', Country Life, vol. 56, no. 1452, November 1924, p. p, 681-683, fig. 1.

Exhibited

London, Crichton Brothers, 'Exhibition of the Old English Royal Plate, Silver and Silver-Gilt, formerly the property of The Late Duke of Cumberland', 4-28 November 1924.

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

DANIEL GARNIER
A Huguenot, born in Vitry-Le-Francois, Daniel was the son of Isaac Garnier and his wife Marguerite Beschefer. Isaac was the first apothecary appointed to Royal Chelsea Hospital and both he and his son Daniel are buried in the Hospital's graveyard, as recorded by Eileen Goodway in her article 'Gleanings on Daniel Garnier', The Silver Society Journal, 2000, no. 12, pp. 125-126. He became free of the Goldsmiths' Company in 1696 and a member of the Livery very soon after in 1698. His work is highly accomplished and clearly displays his French roots, such as the ecuelle, dated 1694, formerly in the Untermyer Collection and now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, and a tankard, with exquisite cut-card work, once in the Cassel Collection and now in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. A ewer displaying similar cut-card work and the cypher of Elisabeth van Nassau-Beverweerd, Countess of Arlington (1633–1718) is in the Rijksmusuem, Amsterdam. His most impressive surviving work is a ten-branch chandelier made for King William III and now in the collection of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. He died aged only thirty-two in 1699.

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