European Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
European Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
Property from a Park Avenue Collection
A George III Silver Tea Urn, John Parker I & Edward Wakelin, London, 1775
Lot Closed
April 12, 04:02 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Park Avenue Collection
A George III Silver Tea Urn, John Parker I & Edward Wakelin, London, 1775
the square base raised on four claw-and-ball feet, the urn applied with bellflower swags hung from rams' head handles and with a band of anthemion between beaded borders, the cover chased to match, a snake wrapped around the lower body forms the spout
marked underneath urn, marked inside cover with lion passant only
151 oz 10 dwt gross
4715 g
height 22 1/2 in.
57.2 cm
A neoclassical argyll marked by Louisa Courtauld and George Cowles, London, 1772/3 in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston features a similarly applied serpent wrapped around the body with the head forming the spout. It is illustrated in Ellenor M. Alcorn, English Silver in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Vol. II, p. 216-17, fig. 133. She also notes that Wakelin & Taylor used the same design for an argyll from 1780 with a serpent spout, sold Parke-Bernet, New York, January 6, 1961, lot 79.