A GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT PRESENTATION TANKARD

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A GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT PRESENTATION TANKARD
MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN BRIDGE, LONDON, 1828

Circular, on spreading circular base, chased with a band of foliage and with putti rowing in shell-form boats on matted ground, with reveling peasants after Teniers within a foliate cartouche, the branch-form handle with applied cast branches, the hinged flat cover with chased band of foliage on a matted ground with scalloped border, marked on base and cover and stamped with RUNDELL BRIDGE ET RUNDELL AURIFICES REGIS LONDINI
9½in. (24.1cm.) high; 69oz. 10dwt. (2170gr.)

来源

Presented to artist John Baverstock Knight (1785-1859) by silversmith John Gawler Bridge, his neighbor in Dorsetshire. In his will Knight describes the present tankard: "I give and bequeath . . . to my son Humphrey Evans Knight The Silver Tankard given to me by my late Friend Mr. John Gawler Bridge" (November 3, 1855).

拍品专文

The base is inscribed To J.B. Knight Esqr. from his friend John Gawler Bridge. this Tankard is Presented. 1828.

John Gawler Bridge (c.1787-1849), at the time that he presented this tankard, was the partner of his uncle John Bridge in the firm of Rundell, Bridge & Rundell. After Phillip Rundell's retirement in 1823, it is thought that J.G. Bridge played an increasingly important role in the management of the firm (John Culme, The Directory of Gold and Silversmiths, 1987, p.398). J.G. Bridge appears also however to have played a creative role, and he is credited with enlisting A.W.N. Pugin as a silver designer for Rundell's. In 1827, J.G. Bridge was searching for designs for antique plate in the Print Room at the British Museum, where he first met the then fifteen-year-old Pugin. (See Shirley Bury, "The Lengthening Shadow of Rundell's," Connoisseur, March 1966.)