THE EMPEROR`S PLATE, ASCOT, 1846: AN IMPORTANT VICTORIAN SILVER THIRTEEN-LIGHT PRESENTATION CANDELABRUM CENTERPIECE
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302400USD $ 302 400
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ID 887759
Lot 13 | THE EMPEROR'S PLATE, ASCOT, 1846: AN IMPORTANT VICTORIAN SILVER THIRTEEN-LIGHT PRESENTATION CANDELABRUM CENTERPIECE
Valeur estimée
$ 150 000 – 250 000
MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, FOR HUNT AND ROSKELL, LONDON, 1846, AFTER A DESIGN BY EDWARD HODGES BAILY
On a shaped-triangular rockwork base surmounted by a fully modeled figure of St. George slaying the dragon, the twisting stem rising to twelve foliate scroll branches and central light, each with a shaped-circular drip pan and vase-form sconce, the tripartite ebonized wood base applied with acanthus at the corners, further applied with the Russian Imperial Arms to one side, and with a shaped oval plaque with Latin presentation inscription to another, marked throughout, the base stamped HUNT AND ROSKELL, LATE STORR AND MORTIMER
45 1/2 in. (115.6 cm.) high, overall
923 oz. 18 dwt. (28,733 gr.) weighable silver
Provenance
Won by Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (1794 - 1865), owner of Alarm, winner of the 1846 Emperor's Plate at the Ascot Races, 1846, bequeathed in his will to,
George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon (1800 - 1870).
Property of an East Coast University; Sotheby's, New York, 14-15 June, 1978, lot 733.
The Al-Tajir Collection, by 1983.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 11 April 2003, lot 206.
Literature
The Illustrated London News, 13 June 1846, p. 392.
J.B. Hawkins, The Al-Tajir Collection of Gold and Silver, London, 1983, p. 186-188.
The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, Christie's, London, 1989, no. 172, p. 222.
Exhibited
Sydney, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Masterpieces of English and European Silver and Gold, January 1980, p. 186-188.
London, Christie's, The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, 1989, no. 172.
| Artiste: | John Samuel Hunt (1785 - 1865) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Construction métallique |
| Matériel: | Argent |
| Lieu d'origine: | Europe du Nord, Europe, Royaume-Uni |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Tous les autres types d'objets, Chandeliers et candélabres |
| Artiste: | John Samuel Hunt (1785 - 1865) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Construction métallique |
| Matériel: | Argent |
| Lieu d'origine: | Europe du Nord, Europe, Royaume-Uni |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Tous les autres types d'objets, Chandeliers et candélabres |
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