Property from the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, sol🐓d to benefit the Museum Acquisition Fund
A George III Silver Seven-Piece Table Garniture, Matthew Boulton & Plate Co., Birmingham, 1805
Lot Closed
October 16, 06:47 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
comprising a circular epergne with four branches, two medium-size oval dessert stands, and four smaller matching stands, all with applied grapevine collars, each with four pilasters headed by lion masks and with paw feet, each centered by acorns rising from leafy coronets, fitted with cut glass bowls with scalloped rims, marked on rims behind the applied grapevine and on branches
155 oz 14 dwt excluding glass
4842.8 g
length of epergne with glass 21 1/4 in.
54 cm
height of epergne 14 3/8 in.
36.5 cm
length of medium stands with glass 7 in.
17.8 cm
length of smaller stands with glass 6 1/2 in.
16.5 cm
Bequest of Arlene Schnitzer
A similar epergne by Boulton, 1791/1806 is illustrated in Eric Delieb & Michael Roberts, Matthew Boulton and the Birmingham Silversmiths, 1760-1790, p. 88-89 where it is described as probably designed by James Wyatt. Another, parcel-gilt, is illustrated in Matthew Boulton, Selling What All the World Desires, edit. by Shena Mason, B🦄irmingham City Council, 2009, p. 168, from the collection of the Birmingh꧅am Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG, 1931, m 636.1).
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