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A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CORAL AND CHALCEDONY `HERCULES` TAZZA

Lot 44
08.02.2024 10:30UTC +00:00
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Lot 44 | A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CORAL AND CHALCEDONY 'HERCULES' TAZZA
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£ 30 000 – 50 000
A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT CORAL AND CHALCEDONY 'HERCULES' TAZZA

MARK OF JAMES ALDRIDGE, LONDON, 1820, DESIGNED BY GREGORIO FRANCHI AND WILLIAM BECKFORD

The openwork circular foot on six scroll feet, with lion's mask monopodiae, the upper border chased with the Hamilton cinquefoil between fleur-de-lys, the base of the chalcedony bowl applied with melon fluted spherical coral terminal, the cover with plain border engraved with scrolling foliage and animals, in the style of Virgil Solis, the finial on six openwork scrolls with carved coral figure of Hercules, the underside of the cover rim engraved with heraldic martlets, in modern fitted case, marked on bowl rim and cover, the foot mount and finial mount unmarked

6 ½ in. (16.5 cm) high

gross weight 11 oz. 10 dwt. (358 gr.)





Provenance

William Beckford (1760-1844) for Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire; from whose collection sold by,

English & Son, Lansdown Tower (Scarlet Room), Bath, 20-29 November 1845, 7th day, lot 514, purchased by Raven for £77 14s.

A Private Collection, Athens.

Kenneth Davis Works of Art Ltd, London.



Literature

Edmund English and Son of Bath and Robert Hume of Berners Street, Lansdown Tower Inventory Mss, 1844, 'mammelated cup and cover with coral Hercules'.

The Illustrated London News, 6 December 1845 p. 3, illustrated.

C. Richardson, Studies in Ornamental Design, London, 1851, illus. frontispiece.

D. E. Ostergard, ed., William Beckford 1760-1844: An Eye for the Magnificent, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2001, pp. 384-385, no. 119, detail of rim, p. 208, fig. 11-6.



Exhibited

New York, Bard Graduate Centre, William Beckford 1760-1844: An Eye for the Magnificent, 2001-2002, then London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2002, no. 119.
Artist:James Aldridge
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Gilding, Silver, Stone
Place of origin:England, Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom
Category:Cups
Auction house category:All other types of objects
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