A REGENCY SILVER-GILT TANKARD

MARK OF EDWARD FARRELL, LONDON, 1817

细节

A REGENCY SILVER-GILT TANKARD
MARK OF EDWARD FARRELL, LONDON, 1817
Cylindrical, the base with applied grapevine and dolphin feet, the body cast and chased with mythological scenes of Mount Olympus in high relief, the handle decorated with grapevine and bacchanalian figures, the domed hinged cover with cast and chased putti and the finial formed as an infant, marked on body, base, and cover
11 in. (30.5 cm.) high; 185 oz. (5775 gr.)

来源

Sir William Butlin, M.B.E., Christie's, London, 17 July 1968, lot 41

出版

A. Phillips and J. Sloane, Exhibition catalogue, Antiquity Revisited: English and French Silver-Gilt, London, 1997, p. 80, no. 18.

展览

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

拍品专文

This and the other tankard in the Love Collection, lot 208, exemplify Farrell's earliest and most eclectic work. Based presumably on a late 17th century German tankard, the decoration incorporates both neo-classical and baroque elements. Farrell's retailer, Kensington Lewis, undoubtedly supplied Farrell with the antique prototypes for such historicist works.

Two other Farrell tankards exist with similar decoration, one sold in these Rooms, April 15, 1997, lot 260, and the other illustrated in Michael Clayton, Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver, 1985, fig.7, p.269.