ID 820077 
Lot 323  | A PAIR OF REGENCY ORMOLU ICE PAILS
Estimate value
$ 50 000 – 80 000 
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.
| Applied technique: | Ormolu | 
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| Medium: | Gold | 
| Art style: | Regency | 
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom | 
| Category: | Pail | 
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Furniture and Lamps | 
| Applied technique: | Ormolu | 
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| Medium: | Gold | 
| Art style: | Regency | 
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom | 
| Category: | Pail | 
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Furniture and Lamps | 
| Address of auction | 
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