MARK OF AUGUSTINE COURTAULD, LONDON, 1739

細節

A SET OF THREE GEORGE II SILVER TEA-CADDIES
MARK OF AUGUSTINE COURTAULD, LONDON, 1739
The caddies each of oblong form with a stepped base, engraved on one side with a coat-of-arms and on the other with a crest, each within an elaborate foliate scroll and diaperwork cartouche, the sliding cover stepped and with a short thumbpiece, engraved with a rose, all contained in a fitted green velvet lined Chinese carved ivory case with a silver handle, further fitted into a wood box with a brass handle, marked underneath and inside cover engraved with scratchweights '14-1', '13-8' and '13-12'
the outer box 8¼ in. (21 cm.) long
the caddies 4 in. (10.2 cm.) high
40 oz. (1,245 gr.)
The arms are those of Gough impaling Hynde, for Captain Harry Gough (1681-1751) and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Morgan Hynde, of Madingley Hall, co. Cambridge, whom he married in 1719. (3)

出版

L. Morton, Silver at Partridge, London, 1998, no. 12, illustrated p. 21.
L. Morton, 'On the Market Recently, The Gough Tea Caddies', The Silver Society Journal, Autumn 1999, p. 256-257, illustrated.

注意事項

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拍品專文

The extraordinary identification of the caddies in the 1741 painting of the Gough family, by William Verelst, was made by Lucy Morton of Partridge after the publication of her 1998 catalogue. She discusses the discovery in the Silver Society Journal article cited above. The painting had previously been thought to have been of the family of Sir Henry Gough (1708-1774), however the appearance of the caddies with the impaled arms of Captain Harry Gough and his wife led to the re-identification of the subject. Lucy Morton notes that Harry Gough was a Captain in the East India Company and commanded the East Indiaman Streatham at Canton in 1705. He was a director of the Company from 1730 until his death and was also M.P. for Bramber, Sussex. He was Chairman of the East India Company from 1737 to 1747. He connections with China are evidenced not only by the fine carved Chinese ivory inner case being offered here, but also by five Chinese armorial porcelain dinner-services painted with his arms, illustrated in D. S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, 1974, p. 165-6.