THE EWER WITH MARK OF SMITH, NICHOLSON AND COMPANY, THE STAND WITH MARK OF EDWARD BARNARD AND SONS, LONDON, 1861

Name: A VICTORIAN SILVER EWER AND STAND
Brand: THE EWER WITH MARK OF SMITH, NICHOLSON AND COMPANY, THE STAND WITH MARK OF EDWARD BARNARD AND SONS, LONDON, 1861
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A VICTORIAN SILVER EWER AND STAND

THE EWER WITH MARK OF SMITH, NICHOLSON AND COMPANY, THE STAND WITH MARK OF EDWARD BARNARD AND SONS, LONDON, 1861

Price Realised GBP 5,000

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On shaped circular rococo base applied with two tritons, the partly fluted flattened shaped circular body chased decorated on either side with a cast scene of Galatea and attendants below a facetted baluster neck, the hinged cover with conch-blowing cherub, engraved on ewer with inscriptions, marked on stand, tritons, body, cover, finial and nut
overall height 24 3/8 in. (62cm.)
146 oz. 3 dwt. (4,547 gr.)
The later inscription reads: 'Presented to The Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association of Great Britain and Ireland by Sir William Jury 1935.'

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, 1 November 2017, lot 861.

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Lot Essay

William Frederick Jury (1870-1944) first described as an ‘(art) illuminator’ became a 'Pyrotechnist' following his marriage to Ellen Marsh whose father William Charles Marsh (1849-1897) had been in the same business for a number of years. Following Marsh’s early death in 1897, Jury pursued his father-in-law's activity quickly adding films to his repertoire of fireworks and lightshows, and giving an early ‘cinematograph exhibition’ at the Winchcombe and Sudeley Flower Show in August 1899 (Gloucestershire Echo, Cheltenham, Thursday, 24 August 1899, p. 3g).
By 1908 ‘Mr. W.F. Jury’s Animated Pictures’ were being shown at various U.K. venues, the subjects including Australian gold digging, romantic and humour scenes. Jury was soon working in almost every branch of the young British film industry. He was one of the earliest and most successful of the film distributors in this country, starting in 1912 and later becoming chairman of Jury Metro-Goldwyn. In 1916 he became Chairman of the War Office Cinema Committee, which oversaw all official newsreels.
In October 1935 Sir William purchased Glebelands, a mansion near Wokingham in Surrey (former home of Sir Leslie Wilson (1876-1955) Governor of Bombay and subsequently Queensland) and presented it to the Cinematograph Trade Benevolent Fund, of which he had long been chairman, for use as a convalescent and rest home for some sixty members and former members of the industry.