Each on shaped lozenge base with gadrooned border, the fluted helmet shaped bodies each with leaf-capped scrolling handle, engraved with a coat-of-arms on one side and a crest on the other, marked beneath the spout, further engraved underneath with scratch weight 74:19
8¹⁄₂ in. (21.5 cm.)
36 oz. 19 dwt. (1,150 gr.)
The arms are those of Allen impaling Holder, almost certainly for Ralph Allen (1693-1764) of Prior Park, Bath and his second wife Elizabeth Holder (d.1766), whom he married at St. Martin-in-the-Fields in 1736.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 28 June 1933, lot 111 (£35).

業務規定
常見問題
拍品賣家為： Christie Manson & Woods Ltd

榮譽呈獻

拍品專文

The same arms are engraved on an inkstand by Paul de Lamerie of 1749, now in the collection of Colonial Williamsburg. In her will Elizabeth Allen, Ralph's widow, leaves an inkstand to the 'Bishop of Gloster [sic.]'. Ralph Allen made a fortune through his role as postmaster in Bath and his wide reaching reforms of the postal system. He made a second fortune through the purchase of the quarries around Bath and his promotion of Bath stone. He built Prior Park, a magnificent Palladian mansion on the edge of Bath.

更多來自

藏家尚品：倫敦

查看全部

狀況報告

佳士得專家或會聯絡閣下，以商討此拍品，又或於拍品狀況於拍賣前有所改變時知會閣下。

本人確認已閱讀有關狀況報告的重要通知並同意其條款。

查閱狀況報告