A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT EWER

MARK OF THOMAS HOLLAND II, LONDON, 1807; LATER ADDITIONS ATTRIBUTED TO EDWARD FARRELL, LONDON, 1823

細節

A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT EWER
MARK OF THOMAS HOLLAND II, LONDON, 1807; LATER ADDITIONS ATTRIBUTED TO EDWARD FARRELL, LONDON, 1823
Vase-shaped, on rococo foot, the body chased with battle scenes, the handle formed as a male caryatid, the neck engraved with Royal Arms, the lower body and base engraved with monogram AGBC, marked on neck; one sword with additional marks for 1823
13¾ in. (34.9 cm.) high; 87 oz. (2710 gr.)
The Royal arms are those of H.R.H. Prince Frederick Augustus, Duke of York; the monogram is that of Angela Burdett-Coutts

來源

H.R.H. Prince Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, K.G., P.C., G.C.B (1763-1827), second son of George III
The Magnificent Silver and Silver-Gilt Plate of His Royal Highness the Duke of York, Deceased, Christie's, London, 19-22 March 1827, first day's sale lot 73
Angela Georgina, Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906), Christie's, London, 17 March 1920, lot 108
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1967, lot 57

出版

Vanessa Brett, The Sotheby's Directory of Silver, London, 1986, p. 246, no. 1107
A. Phillips and J. Sloane, Antiquity Revisited: English and French Silver-Gilt, London, 1997, p. 72, no. 15.

展覽

New York, Christie's, Antiquity Revisited: English and French Silver-Gilt from the Collection of Audrey Love, September 1997
San Marino, Huntington Art Gallery, November 1998 - January 1999

拍品專文

This ewer and its companion flanked Farrell's massive monteith bowl made for the Duke of York in 1820. All three pieces have superb relief decoration with identical battle scenes including an equestrian soldier described as Alexander in the Duke of York's sale catalogue of 1827. The three pieces, together with a ladle for the monteith, were consecutive lots in the catalogue, where the ewers are called praefericula.

MASSIVE SILVER-GILT PLATE
Lot 73 A PRAEFERICULUM, the lip formed of the stem of a vine with fruit, the handle, a terminal recurved: round the bowl of the vessel is represented one of the battles of Alexander, in superb chasing; the stem and foot formed of very rich chasing and scroll work. 13½ inches high, to the top of the handle
weight 87oz. 5dwt
[£69/16]
Lot 74 A DITTO, the Companion, weight 81 oz
[£70]

The ewer eventually passed into the collection of Angela Burdett-Coutts, heir and step-grandaughter to Harriet Mellon Coutts, Duchess of St. Albans. With her great inherited wealth, Angela Burdett-Coutts became an art collector and philanthropist, and Queen Victoria created her a Baroness in her own right in 1871.

This ewer is one of at least seven similar examples by Holland, all hallmarked for the year 1807 and each with an identical, very distinctive handle formed as a male caryatid with floral wreaths around his head and waist.

CAPTION: George IV silver-gilt monteith, mark of Edward Farrell, London, 1820. The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection, courtesy of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art