MAKER'S MARK OF DANIEL AND CHARLES HOULE, LONDON, 1866

Details

A Victorian silver-gilt salver
Maker's mark of Daniel and Charles Houle, London, 1866
Circular, on four scroll and bracket feet, the reeded border cast and pierced with a grapevine, shells and flowers, the centre chased with a band of foliate scrolls, floral garlands and birds, and applied with a cast coat of arms, marked on reverse
22½in. (57.25cm.) diam.
205oz. (6,389gr.)

Provenance

Mervyn, 7th Viscount Powerscourt (1836-1904) and thence by descent to
Patrick, 9th Viscount Powerscourt (1905-1973)
Purchased by Ralph Slazenger Esq. in 1961
Powercourt, Enniskerry, co. Wicklow; Christie's House sale, 24 September 1984, lot 156

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Lot Essay

Lord Powerscourt sat in the House of Lords as one of the Irish Representative Peers until 1884, when he was created a peer of the United Kingdom. He was a Justice of the Peace in both co. Wicklow and Dublin, and acted as one of the Lord Justice's of Ireland. It was he that completed the magnificent gardens at Powerscourt, following on from the 6th Viscount, who had employed the drunken and eccentric Daniel Robertson to direct the works. The 7th Viscount noted that Robertson 'drew best when excited by sherry...and used to be driven about in a wheel-barrow with a bottle of sherry'. The 7th Viscount also remodeled the interior of the house to a great extent, adding a wing and creating a new dining room.

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