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Hot Water Urn
Marked by: Charles Wright (free 1754, died in 1815)
English (London)
1771–72
Object Place: Europe, London, England
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
57.8 x 27.1 x 31.8 cm (22 3/4 x 10 11/16 x 12 1/2 in.) Weight: 3,161 gm (101 oz 12 dwt)
Credit Line
Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Charlotte Beebe Wilbour
Accession Number1971.130
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CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSilver
DescriptionThe urn-shaped body rests on a shaped square plinth that has four leaf-capped scrolled feet and a cast openwork skirt. The raised base is chased with a band of guilloche along the edge of the plinth and panels of reeding emanating from an applied central collar of beed-and-reel. At the top of the base is a bezel, keyed to fit into the removable upper section of the urnand to enclose a cylindrical heating device (now missing). The body of the urn is formed of two raised and chased sections, joined at the midsection with an undulating line of bead-and-reel ornament with applied shells and scrolls. The bottom and the top of the body are chased with broad fluting. A spout cast in the form of a serpent projects from the lower front of the urn. Cast openwork handles are joined to the body at the midsection. The fluted neck rises to a border of applied beading. The high domed cover is chased with fluting and surmounted with a coarsely formed pineapple finial. From the rim, the fluted neck of the urn tapers, then flares slightly to form another beaded rim.
Marks
On inner heat compartment and on upper rim of base, date letter Q; leopard's head crowned; lion passant) repeated on bezel of cover); maker's mark CW (Grimwade 428).
InscriptionsARMORIALS: engraved on front of the urn, the arms of Morteyn or Power quartering Bloen, Bloer, Kelston, Little, Prydeux, Twichet, or Wotten, with Aldredin pretence; engraved on cover, an unidentified coat of arms and crest (quartrely 1 and 4, a fess embattled, and in chief two five-pointed mullets sable, gules a chevron engrailed or, between three griffin's heads erased; crest: a hand holding two serpents entwined).
INSCRIPTIONS: engraved under edge of urn, "100-8".
INSCRIPTIONS: engraved under edge of urn, "100-8".
ProvenanceSold Parke-Bernet, New York, March 16, 1971, lot 26, purchased April 14, 1971, Theodora Wilbour Fund in Memory of Charlotte Beebe Wilbour. (Accession Date: April 14, 1971)