MARK OF NICOLAS II OUTREBON, PARIS, 1756

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A LOUIS XV SILVER EWER
MARK OF NICOLAS II OUTREBON, PARIS, 1756
Baluster, on shaped circular foot chased with shells and within Rococo cartouches, the lower body applied with bulrushes below a moulded rib, the neck and spout chased and applied with Rococo scrolls, shells and floral garlands, the scroll handle with dolphin thumbpiece, the hinged cover chased as a shell with laurel leaf border and shell finial, later engraved on the body with a crest and earl's coronet, marked underneath and in cover with charge, date-letter (q) and maker; on handle with maker; on foot-rim with decharge, countermark for 1762-1768 (hand), for 1768-1774 (bugle) and for 1774-1780 (slipper); on upper rim with countermark for 1768-1774
10 in. (25.2 cm.) high
37 oz. 17 dwt. (1,177 gr.)
The crest is that of Bingham for Sir Charles Bingham 7th Bt., 1st Baron Lucan of Castle Bar and 1st Earl of Lucan (1735-1799). Bingham inherited the family baronetcy from his elder brother in 1750. He was High Sheriff of Mayo in 1756. the year the present lot was made. Bingham had wintered in Rome in 1755 and may have returned to England via Paris in 1756, when he might have acquired this ewer. He visited the Continent again in 1778 to 1779. He was elected M. P. for Castlebar and Co. Mayo in 1761. He sat in the Irish House of Commons until 1776 when he was elevated as Baron Lucan, of Castlebar. In 1760 he married Margaret Smith at Bath, Somerset. He became Earl of Lucan in 1795.

Provenance

Sir Charles Bingham 7th Bt., 1st Baron Lucan of Castle Bar and 1st Earl of Lucan (1735-1799).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Geneva, 27 April 1976, lot 425.
with Jacques Kugel, Paris, October 1978.
Acquired from the above by the Blaquier-Arrieta Family.

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Lot Essay

Nicolas II Outrebon was the son of a goldsmith of the same name who registered his first mark in 1735. He is known to have worked for François-Thomas Germain as he registered a debt on the former's bankruptcy in 1766 for 'marchandises fournies' (provided goods). His son Jean-Louis-Dieudonné Outrebon registered a mark in 1772 and took over the workshop upon his father's death in 1779.

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