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Sauce Boat

1733-34 (hallmarked)
Artist/Maker
Lamerie, Paul De (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
Sauce boat
Materials and techniques
Raised, cast, engraved and tooled silver.
Silver
Silver
Silver
Silver
Raising
Casting
Engraving (Incising)
Tooling
Brief description
Sauce boat, silver, Paul de Lamerie, 1733.
Physical description
Oval sauce boat standing on lion's paw feet, with lion masks and applied floral swags on the sides, the leaf capped scroll handle springs from a shell at each terminal.
Dimensions
  • (accross handle) length: 24cm
  • Height: 11.8cm
  • Weight: 748g
Scratch weight 24=9
Credit line
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Object history
Provenance: Philip Yorke, Erddig Park, Denbighshire. The Hon. Violet Vivian, Glynn, Bangor, North Wales, sale, Christie's, lots 81, 82, June 13, 1945. Sale, Christie's, lot 129, November 27, 1957. Sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, lot 84. Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert.
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
  • 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. 241, no. 477.
  • Art at Auction: The Year at Sotheby Parke Bernet 1973-74. London; New York: Sotheby & Co. [etc.], p. 284 (one sauce boat)
  • Grimwade, Arthur. Rococo Silver, 1727-1765. London: Faber and Faber, 1974, pl. 32A. ISBN.0671105262
  • 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. 324, no. 477.
  • Brett, Vanessa. The Sotheby's Directory of Silver, 1600-1940. London: Sotheby's Publications, 1986, no. 707.
  • Schroder, Timothy. The Gilbert collection of gold and silver. Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 1988, cat. no. 53, pp. 214-17. ISBN.0875871445
  • Jones, William Ezelle, Monumental Silver: Selections from the Gilbert Collection. Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1977 no.6
Other numbers
  • SG 54AB - Arthur Gilbert Number
  • M.77.2.2 - LACMA
  • 1996.170 - The Gilbert Collection, Somerset House
  • SG 122B - Arthur Gilbert Number
  • 1996.907 - The Gilbert Collection, Somerset House
Collection
Metalwork Collection
Accession number
LOAN:GILBERT.692:1-2008

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Record createdJune 19, 2008
Record URL
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