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On display at National Trust Dunham Massey Hall, Altringham

Chamber Pot

1722-23 (hallmarked)
Artist/Maker
Liger, Isaac (maker)
Place of origin
London (assayed)

Sir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes. Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996.


Object details

Object type
Chamber pot
Materials and techniques
Raised, cast and engraved silver.
Silver
Silver
Silver
Raising
Casting
Engraving (Incising)
Brief description
Chamber pot, silver, Isaac Liger, 1722.
Physical description
Silver chamber pot of plain circular form with a flat base and bulbous sides, a waisted neck and an S-scroll handle.
Dimensions
  • Height: 12.1cm
  • Diameter: 17.3cm
  • Weight: 823g
Scratch weight: 27 = 12
Credit line
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Object history
Provenance: George Booth, second earl of Warrington, Dunham Massey, Cheshire. By descent to Catherine, Lady Grey, and Sir John Foley-Grey, sale, Christie's, lot 138, April 20, 1921. Acquired by Arthur Gilbert from S.J. Phillips Ltd, London, 1982.
Summary
Sir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes. Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996.
Associated object
LOAN:GILBERT.727-2008
Bibliographic references
  • Clayton, Michael. The Collector's dictionary of the silver and gold of Great Britain and North America. London: Country Life Books/Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1971, p. 59 (no. 116 illustrates another from the same set).
  • Clayton, Michael. The Collector's dictionary of the silver and gold of Great Britain and North America. 2nd ed. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 1985, p. 81 (no. 116 illustrates another from the same set).
  • Schroder, Timothy. The Gilbert collection of gold and silver. Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 1988, cat. no. 40, pp. 166-68. ISBN.0875871445
Other numbers
  • SG 143A - Arthur Gilbert Number
  • 1996.920 - The Gilbert Collection, Somerset House
  • SG 362 i - Arthur Gilbert Number
  • 2001.10 - The Gilbert Collection, Somerset House
Collection
Metalwork Collection
Accession number
LOAN:GILBERT.726-2008

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Record createdJune 19, 2008
Record URL
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