A PAIR OF REGENCY ORMOLU ICE PAILS

Lot 323
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Lot 323 | A PAIR OF REGENCY ORMOLU ICE PAILS
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$ 50 000 – 80 000
A PAIR OF REGENCY ORMOLU ICE PAILS

BY BENJAMIN VULLIAMY, CIRCA 1810

Each with applied grapevines within engraved laurel leaf banded borders punctuated by fully sculpted Bacchic masks, the oval bodies raised on spread-winged eagles on a stepped circular base, the central recess engraved with the arms of Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson, the pail rims engraved 2 and 6, respectively, lacking wheatsheaf rims and liners, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label

10 in. (25.6 cm.) high, 7 3/4 in. (27.3 cm.) diameter





Provenance

Two from a set of six pails originally commissioned by Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson of Shugborough and Orgave from Benjamin Vulliamy in 1811 at a cost of £438 5s. 2d. for the six.

Possibly sold by the 4th Earl of Lichfield, Shugborough; Christie's, London, 27 November 1941, lot 124 (a set of four described as Empire).

Acquired from Partridge, London, by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1981.





Literature

Vulliamy and Son, Shop ledger 34, Commencing 17 May 1809 and ending August 1814, p. 89.

N. Goodison and R. Kern, Hotspur: Eighty Years of Antiques Dealing, London, 2004, pp. 256-7.
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