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Bowl

1691-1692 (hallmarked)
Artist/Maker
Nelme, Anthony (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

Categories
Metalwork
Containers
Object type
Bowl
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Bowl
  • Cover
Materials and techniques
Raised, cast, pierced, cut card, moulded and partially gilded (parcel-gilt) silver
Silver
Silver-Gilt
Raising
Casting
Piercing
Moulding
Parcel Gilding
Brief description
Parcel-gilt silver covered bowl; Anthony Nelme, London, 1691-2
Physical description
Two-handled, shallow bowl of circular form on a gadrooned, spreading foot, the lower part of the body decorated with pierced, swirling cut-card fluting, the S-scroll handles moulded with beading. The slightly raised cover has a gadrooned border and an applied cipher, thought to be that of Judith Bridgeman, in the centre within a reeded and chased gadrooned surround.
Dimensions
  • Height: 7.5cm
  • Width: 18cm
  • Depth: 12.9cm
  • Weight: 560g
Updated with measurements taken 18/08/08
Marks and inscriptions
  • London hallmarks for 1691-2
  • Mark of Anthony Nelme
  • Cipher on the cover for Judith Bridgeman, daughter of Sir John Bridgeman (d.1713), second baronet of Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire.
  • Sterling standard
Gallery label
(Gallery 70, case 4) 10. Tankard 1685–86 London, England; John Richardson (died 1697–98) Silver Engraved with coat of arms of the Weekes family of Hurstpierpoint, Sussex Museum no. Loan:Gilbert.611-2008(16/11/2016)
Credit line
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Object history
Provenance: Possibly Judith Bridgeman, Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire. Reginald Astley (complete service). Mrs Mylins, sale, Sotheby's, lot 166 (complete service), May 30, 1935. William Randolph Hearst, sale, Christie's, lot 67 (complete service), December 14, 1938. Prince David Z. Molviani, sale, Sotheby's, lot 117 (complete service), November 30, 1967. Sale, Christie's, lot 111, November 28, 1979. Acquired by Arthur Gilbert from S.J. Phillips Ltd, London, 1984.
Subjects depicted
Gadroons
Reeding
Cut Card
Beading
Cipher
Chasing
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 objects
Bibliographic references
  • Schroder, Timothy. The Gilbert collection of gold and silver, Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 1988, cat. no. 33, pp. 137-40. ISBN.0875871445
  • Art at Auction: The Year at Sotheby's and Parke-Bernet 1967-68, p. 368.
  • Banister, Judith. 'Some Ingredients of Silver Toilet services'. The Proceedings of the Society of Silver Collectors 2, p. 39.
  • Brett, Vanessa. The Sotheby's Directory of Silver, 1600-1940. London: Sotheby's Publications, 1986, no. 545.
Other numbers
  • SG 175A - Arthur Gilbert Number
  • SG 173AB - Arthur Gilbert Number
Collection
Metalwork Collection
Accession number
LOAN:GILBERT.589:1, 2-2008

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Record createdJune 26, 2008
Record URL
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