细节
A GEORGE II SILVER-GILT EWER
MARK OF DAVID WILLAUME, LONDON, CIRCA 1720
Helmet shaped and on spreading foot, the lower body applied with strapwork, with cast mermaid handle, later engraved with an inscription, marked near rim with maker's mark only four times
8 1/2 in. (22 cm.) high
30 oz. 7 dwt. (944 gr.)
The inscription reads 'Heir Loom [sic] Bequeathed by Honble Stanhope Dormer 1811
来源
Bequeathed in the will of John Stanhope Wintringham Dormer (1777-1811) to his half-brother
Charles, 9th Earl Dormer (1753-1819) and the future Barons Dormer as an heirloom, by descent to
Roland, 13th Baron Dormer (1862-1920).
The Hon. Baron Dormer; Christie’s London, 27 March 1901, lot 59 (£250 to S. J. Phillips).
Almost certainly acquired by Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling (1832-1911), by descent to his son
Louis Samuel Montagu, 2nd Baron Swaythling (1869-1927), by descent to his son
Stuart Albert Samuel Montagu, 3rd Baron Swaythling (1898-1990).
The Rt. Hon. Lord Swaythling, removed from Townhill Park, Southampton; Christie’s London, 17 July 1946, lot 123 (£175 to Linden).
出版
The Last Will and Testament of John Stanhope Wintringham Dormer, PRO Mss. 11/1522/68.
W. Roberts, The Magazine of Art, ‘The Collector, Art Sales of the Season, Objects of Art II’, 1902, vol. 26, p. 187.
The Connoisseur, ‘In the Salerooms’, 1901, vol. 1, p. 52.
展览
London, Olympia, The Daily Telegraph Exhibition of Antiques and Works of Art, 1928, no. S 94 (Lord Swaythling).
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