A pair of George II silver waiters

MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN WHITE, LONDON, 1730

細節

A pair of George II silver waiters
Maker's mark of John White, London, 1730
Shaped square and with incurved angles, each on four pad and scroll fet, with moulded borders, each engraved with a coat-of-arms within shell, scroll, vase, diaper-work and semi-draped male and female figure carouche, the base with a scene of Pan observing Syrinx bathing, each marked on reverse
6¼in. 915.5cm.) square
22ozs. (692gr.) (2)

來源

A Lady [Miss E. J. Browne-Clayton]; Christie's London, 28 July 1930, lot 1333 (£80 to S. J. Phillips)
Arthur, 10th Earl of Kintore (1879-1966)
The Earl of Kintore; Sotheby's London, 18 June 1964, lot 152
Jaime Ortiz-Patino; Sotheby's New York, 21 May 1991, lot 134

拍品專文

Pan, the Greek god of shepherds and flocks, was the son of the powerful messenger-god Hermes and the mortal Penelope, who later married Odysseus. With the head and torso of a man and the hindquarters and horns of a goat, Pan was best known as a symbol of fecundity due to his lustful nature, but he was also a great connoisseur and player of music. Syrinx, a nymph who found herself the subject of Pan's unwelcome attentions, preferred to escape him by flinging herself into a river, begging the gods to change her into a reed. This they did, and the unlucky suitor gathered the reed and made it into the pan-pipe which became his preferred instrument.