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Covered 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
Containers
Metalwork
Object type
Covered bowl
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Bowl
  • Cover for a Bowl
Materials and techniques
Silver, parcel-gilt, raised, cast, pierced, cut card, and moulded
Gold
Silver
Raising
Casting
Piercing
Moulding
Parcel Gilding
Brief description
Silver, parcel-gilt, London hallmarks for 1691-2, mark of Anthony Nelme
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 are moulded with beading. The slightly raised cover has a gadrooned border and an applied cipher in the centre within a reeded and chased gadrooned surround.
Dimensions
  • Width across handles width: 18cm
  • Diameter: 11.8cm
  • Height: 7.7cm
  • Weight: 565g
Marks and inscriptions
  • London hallmarks for 1691-2
  • Mark of Anthony Nelme
Credit line
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Object history
Provenance:
Complete service: Possibly Judith Bridgeman, Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire; Reginald Astley; Mrs Mylins, sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 166, May 30, 1935; William Randolph Hearst, sale, Christie's, London, lot 67, December 14, 1938; Prince David Z. Molviani, sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 117, November 30, 1967.
Bowl and cover: Sale, Christie's, London, lot 111, November 28, 1979. Acquired by Arthur Gilbert from S.J. Phillips Ltd, London, 1984.
Subjects depicted
Gadroons
Cut-Card Work
Fluting
Beading (Edging Pattern)
Reeding
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. 137-138. 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.
  • Williams, Elizabeth A. The Gilbert Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), 2010, fig. 1, p. 24. ISBN 9780875872100
Other numbers
  • SG 175B - Arthur Gilbert Number
  • L.2010.9.18a-b - LACMA Loan Number 2010
  • SG 173AB - Arthur Gilbert Number
Collection
Metalwork Collection
Accession number
LOAN:GILBERT.590:1-2008

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Record createdJune 26, 2008
Record URL
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