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Detail: Monogram
Ewer
English (London)
1795–96
Object Place: Europe, London, England
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
H. 36 cm (14 3/16 in.); W. 22.7 cm (8 15/16 in.);
D. 11.7 cm (4 5/8 in.); Weight: 854 gms (27 0z 9 dwt)
D. 11.7 cm (4 5/8 in.); Weight: 854 gms (27 0z 9 dwt)
Credit Line
The M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts
Accession Number41.623
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSilver
DescriptionThe jug is vase-shaped and elliptical in section. The trumpet foot is raised and chased with panels of vertical fluting. The body of the vessel, raised from two pieces of sheet, has vertical pannels of fluting alternating with plain panels. A band of reeding is applied to the midsection. The slender neck of the jug has a flaring lip and a hinged, domed cover with an urn-shaped finial. The high ear-shaped handle is mounted on foliate sockets. The rim of the foot and the panels on the body are chased and engraved with a geometric and floral border.
Marks
On underside of foot, sovereign's head; date letter u; leopard's head crowned; lion passant; maker's mark PB over AB (Grimwade 2140);
InscriptionsEngraved on side, ED in monogram / 1750; on opposite side Martha C. Codman 1870.
ProvenanceElizabeth Derby, by descent to Martha C. Codman, Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Maxim Karolik, for The M. & M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts. (Accession Date: October 9, 1941)