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AN ORMOLU AND SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CARVED AGATE EWER AND BASIN

Lot 5
01.07.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 5 | AN ORMOLU AND SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CARVED AGATE EWER AND BASIN
Estimate value
£ 500 000 – 800 000
AN ORMOLU AND SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CARVED AGATE EWER AND BASIN
THE AGATE EWER BASIN LATE 17TH CENTURY, THE ORMOLU MOUNTS ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-PHILIPPE THOMIRE, CIRCA 1789-1800
The ewer with a lobed body with acanthus decoration in relief and a carved dolphin handle above a baluster and carved foliate stem and on an oval spreading base mounted with a spirally turned collar rim and with original late 17th century silver mounts; above a lobed and foliate-engraved oval basin supported by ormolu mounts of four kneeling tritons issuing from scrolling foliage supporting the ewer and four winged sphinxes with scrolling tails terminating in flower heads, on a re-entrant base centred by a fruiting finial supporting the basin
19 ½ in. (42 cm.) high; 12 ½ in. (32 cm.) wide; 10 ½ in. (27 cm.) deep




Provenance

Anonymous sale organised by the marchands experts Paillet and Delaroche, Notice de Tableaux, Gouaches, Aquarelles, Dessins et Estampes..., Paris, 20 July 1801, lot 47.
Acquired by Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, Marquis of Douglas and later 10th Duke of Hamilton (d.1852), possibly in Russia, when Ambassador in St Petersburg, circa 1807.
Thence by descent to William, 12th Duke of Hamilton (d. 1895), Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire;
sold Christie's, London, 17 June-20 July 1882, lot 1436 (£850 10s) to Christopher Beckett Denison;
sold Christie's, London, 6 June 1885, lot 777 (£573 6s) to William, 5th Earl of Carysfort, Elton Hall, Cambridgeshire and thence by descent,
until sold Christie’s, London, 7 July 2005, lot 445.
The Taste of the Royal Court: Important French Furniture and Works of Art from a Private Collection; Christie's, London, 9 July 2015, lot 20, where acquired by the present owner (£1,046,500 including premium).



Literature

Russian Lists, circa 1807, Hamilton Archives/ 332/ M12.30.
Art Furniture Purchased by 5th Earl [of Carysfort], manuscript, circa 1885.
P. Humfrey ed., The Reception of Titian in Britain, Belgium, 2013, p. 143.
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