A VICTORIAN SILVER WARWICK VASE AND PLINTH

THE VASE WITH MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1865, THE PLINTH WITH MAKER'S MARK OF HUNT AND ROSKELL, LONDON, 1866

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A VICTORIAN SILVER WARWICK VASE AND PLINTH
The vase with maker's mark of John Samuel Hunt, London, 1865, the plinth with maker's mark of Hunt and Roskell, London, 1866
Formed as the Warwick vase, on square foot and with spreading circular stem, the body cast and chased with a band of acanthus foliage and with lion's pelt and bacchic masks, and applied below the egg-and-dart rim with trailing vines, with two interlaced vine handles, the square plinth with acanthus foliage borders and inset with four plaques, two applied with ribbon-tied laurel wreaths, one with a coat-of-arms, the other with presentation inscription, marked on vase, plinth, plaques, wreaths and coats-of-arms, each stamped with retailers mark 'HUNT & ROSKELL LATE STORR & MORTIMER, 3208, 3814
18¼in. (46½cm.) high; 259ozs. (8.081gr.)

來源

Sotheby's, London, May 3, 1984, lot 151

拍品專文

John Samuel Hunt died on May 20, 1865, after which the business was continued by his son, John Hunt, and Robert Roskell. They entered their mark on October 19, 1865. This explains why the maker's marks differ on the vase and plinth, although they were made by the same firm.

The inscription reads 'PRESENTED TO MR AND MRS ARKWRIGHT OF HAMPTON COURT ON THEIR WEDDING DAY BY THEIR TENANTS, TRADESMEN AND NEIGHBOURS WITH BEST WISHES FOR THEIR HAPPINESS 12TH JUNE 1866.

The arms are those of Arkwright impaling Davenport, for John Hungerford Arkwright Esq. (1833-1905), of Hampton Court, Herefordshire, and his wife Charlotte Lucy, daughter of John Davenport Esq., of Foxley, Herefordshire and Westwood Hall, Staffordshire, whom he married in 1866. The Arkright family was originally from Derbyshire and descended from Sir Richard Arkwright (1732-1792), the celebrated inventor, who made a vast fortune from his patented spinning machine. His son, Richard Arkwright (1755-1843), the father of John Hungerford Arkwright, bought Hampton Court in 1810 and employed the amateur architect Charles Hanbury Tracy, later 1st Baron Sudeley (1777-1858), to remodel the house in the gothic style. Indeed it was John Davenport, father of John Hungerford's wife, Charlotte, who introduced Richard Arkwright to Hanbury Tracy.

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Detail of arms, lot 169