Lot 139
139
A RARE GEORGE II CAST BOAT-SHAPED CREAM JUG, on rectangular base, the body cast and chased with goats, a cow, bull's mask, shells, scrolls and foliage, the scroll handle surmounted by a bearded ram's mask, by Louis Hamon, 1738

Details
A RARE GEORGE II CAST BOAT-SHAPED CREAM JUG, on rectangular base, the body cast and chased with goats, a cow, bull's mask, shells, scrolls and foliage, the scroll handle surmounted by a bearded ram's mask, by Louis Hamon, 1738
5¼in. (13.5cm.) high
(17ozs.)
Provenance
Anon. sale, Christie's, 28th February, 1923, lot 13 (#80 to Carrington)
Literature
Michael Clayton, The Collectors' Dictionary of Silver and Gold, 1985, pl.157a

Lot Essay

Arthur Grimwade, in his London Goldsmiths, 1697 - 1838, Their Marks and Lives, 1976, says of Louis Hamon, "His work though rarely met with displays considerable power of rococo invention".

A cream jug, by John Eckford, of 1742, with similar body, but the handle surmounted by a dog, is in the Huntington collection, San Marino, and illustrated in Robert R. Wark, British Silver in the Huntington Collection, 1978, no.142

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