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拍品专文
The muses were goddesses of creative inspiration in poetry, song and other arts and were the companions of Apollo. Terpsichore, the goddess of dancing and song, is often depicted holding a lyre or other stringed instrument.
Francis Harrache is known to have entered a smallworker's mark as 'Silversmith att ye Seven Dyals in great St. Andrew Street att ye Blackmoors head St. Gilses' on February 16, 1737/1738 (Goldsmiths' Hall Registers Vol. A1 Smallworkers, p. 26) and is recorded at that address by Heal as 'silversmith and toyman' from 1732-1758 (The London Goldsmiths 1200-1800 A Record of the Names and Addresses of the Craftsmen their Shop-signs and Trade-cards, Newton Abbot, 1972, p. 164). The Poor Rate Books for the parish St Giles record Francis Harrache as a ratepayer in Great St Andrew Street from 1741/42-1753 when the house was taken over by the watchcase maker James Freshfield. Harrache is then recorded as a ratepayer in the neighbouring Little Earl Street from 1754 until his death in 1757. He was buried, alongside nine of his children, in Paddington Churchyard on 23 August, 1757.
For other boxes by this goldsmith, see lots 116 and 135.
Francis Harrache is known to have entered a smallworker's mark as 'Silversmith att ye Seven Dyals in great St. Andrew Street att ye Blackmoors head St. Gilses' on February 16, 1737/1738 (Goldsmiths' Hall Registers Vol. A1 Smallworkers, p. 26) and is recorded at that address by Heal as 'silversmith and toyman' from 1732-1758 (The London Goldsmiths 1200-1800 A Record of the Names and Addresses of the Craftsmen their Shop-signs and Trade-cards, Newton Abbot, 1972, p. 164). The Poor Rate Books for the parish St Giles record Francis Harrache as a ratepayer in Great St Andrew Street from 1741/42-1753 when the house was taken over by the watchcase maker James Freshfield. Harrache is then recorded as a ratepayer in the neighbouring Little Earl Street from 1754 until his death in 1757. He was buried, alongside nine of his children, in Paddington Churchyard on 23 August, 1757.
For other boxes by this goldsmith, see lots 116 and 135.