CAPTION: Sir Isaac-Lyon Goldsmid, courtesy of The National Portrait Gallery, London

A GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT SIDEBOARD DISH

MARK OF PHILIP RUNDELL, LONDON, 1820

细节

A GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT SIDEBOARD DISH
MARK OF PHILIP RUNDELL, LONDON, 1820
Circular, the center relief with a figure of Nike among four galloping horses on a matte ground, the cavetto with applied arms, the cast trellis grapevine border with bacchanalian heads and masks, marked on reverse, the applied Victorian armorials with mark of John Samuel Hunt, the reverse stamped RUNDELL, BRIDGE ET RUNDELL AURIFICES REGIS LONDINI
31¼ in. (79.5 cm.) diameter; 482 oz. (14, 995 gr.)
The arms are those of Goldsmid as borne by Sir Isaac-Lyon Goldsmid, 1st Baronet (1778-1859) who married in 1804 his cousin Isabel, daughter of Abraham Goldsmid. Sir Isaac-Lyon devoted his life to the cause of Jewish emancipation and became the first baronet of that faith in 1841.

来源

Sir Isaac-Lyon Goldsmid, 1st Baronet (1778-1859)
Mrs. Garside, Christie's, London, 31 January 1968, lot 53

出版

Christie's, Review of the Year, 1967-1968, pp. 144-145
A. Phillips and J. Sloane, Exhibition catalogue, Antiquity Revisited: English and French Silver-Gilt, London, 1997, p. 58, no. 10.

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

The designer of the cameo-like central plaque of Nike leading horses of a quadriga was very probably Benedetto Pistrucci (1784-1855), the leading medal-engraver of his day and officially Chief Medallist to the King. He is known to have designed numerous medals for Rundell's, and the design of this plaque relates closely to Pistrucci's famous Waterloo Medal, which has very similar horses and a classical figure. Charles Oman attributed a similarly modelled central relief plaque of St. George and the Dragon on another dish by Philip Rundell of 1822 to Pistrucci (see C. Oman, English Silversmiths' Work, Civil and Domestic, London, 1965, fig. 207 and Laurence Brown, A Catalogue of British Historical Medals, 1760-1960, London, 1980, vol. I, pp. 209-212).