Metalwork Design
1803
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A drawing of a wine cooler, profile shown full size 288 x 303.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Pencil, pen and ink and grey wash. On wove paper pasted to a card mount. |
| Brief description | Design for a silver or ormolu wine cooler, by Jean Jacques Boileau (active 1787 and died after 1851) c. 1800 |
| Physical description | A drawing of a wine cooler, profile shown full size 288 x 303. |
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| Object history | This design contains elements used on a number of wine coolers, all of the same basic shape (see also 8390.16 and 8390.17). The frieze and handles are found on a set of four silver wine coolers at Woburn Abbey, marked by Paul Storr, London 1805- 1806. The sphinx base of crouched winged sphinxes appears on a silver wine cooler marked by Digby Scott and Benjamin Smith, London 1805- 1806 and in ormolu (possibly by the firm Rundell and Bridge). This and the other drawings by J. J. Boileau and his school were probably in the collection of A. C. Pugin and sold at Mr Wheatley’s rooms, lot 469, Boileau’s (J.) “Series of drawings appropriated to the gold and silversmiths”, bought by Williams for 3 shillings. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Snodin, Connoisseur, J. J. Boileau A Forgotten Designer of Silver, page 124 to 133 fig.12.
S. Jervis, Penguin Dictionary of Design and Designers, Penguin Books 1984
C. Hartop, Royal Goldsmiths: The Art of Rundell & Bridge, 2005, Adamson fig. 45
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| Accession number | 8390:15 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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