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A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT TWO-HANDLED MONTEITH AND GEORGE II LADLE
Lot 95 The Property of the Late 9th Marquess of Londonderry
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A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT TWO-HANDLED MONTEITH AND GEORGE II LADLE

THE MONTEITH MARK OF PATRICK ROBINSON, EDINBURGH, 1782, BOTH REDECORATED AND ADAPTED IN THE WORKSHOP OF EDWARD FARRELL, LONDON, CIRCA 1820

Closed21 May 2014

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A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT TWO-HANDLED MONTEITH AND GEORGE II LADLE
THE MONTEITH MARK OF PATRICK ROBINSON, EDINBURGH, 1782, BOTH REDECORATED AND ADAPTED IN THE WORKSHOP OF EDWARD FARRELL, LONDON, CIRCA 1820
Circular, on a circular foot, the foot chased with vines, scrolls and foliage on a matted ground, the body with later applied decoration, including Bacchanalian scenes with putti drinking, riding animals, and playing instruments, the cast scroll handles with female masks and foliage, the rim attached with metal rivets, with scrolls, shells and lion's masks at intervals, together with a silver-gilt punch ladle, London, 1728, the bowl later chased with flowers, the handle with flowers and foliage on a matted ground and terminating with cast figures of Venus and Cupid, marked under base, the ladle marked inside bowl
11 3/8 in. (28.9 cm.) high, 21½ in. (54.6 cm.) wide over handles; 222 oz. (6,914 gr.) (2)

Specialist note

This massive monteith bowl is decorated in the distinctive historicist style of Edward Farrell, silversmith, who worked under the direction of antiquarian and retailer Kensington Lewis. Together they made a group of magnificent silver-gilt objects for their profligate patron, Frederick, Duke of York, second son of George III. Indeed, this monteith relates to the example commissioned by the Duke of York, now in the Gilbert Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum. The Duke of York also commissioned two ewers, companions to the monteith, that were, like the present example, re-fashioned by Farrell from earlier hallmarked examples (see A. Phillips and J. Sloane, Antiquity Revisited: English and French Silver from the Collection of Audrey Love, 1997, pp. 62-80; the ewers bear hallmarks for 1807 and were decorated by Farrell for the Duke of York in 1823).