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The delicate modelling of the detail, although a little worn through use, is characteristic of the silver associated with Paul de Lamerie's virtuoso modeller, the enigmatic Maynard Master. De Lamerie's workshop regularly supplied ladles for bowls and tureens.\r\n\r\nSir 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.","physicalDescription":"Punch ladle; silver, cast, chased and engraved; the stem elongated and decorated with scroll, vine and hop motifs in relief; the bowl plain on the inside, the outside as stylized shell; with unidentified crest on stem","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Lamerie, Paul de","id":"A8591"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"AAT251917"},"note":"Paul de Lamerie (1688-1751) was the greatest silversmith working in England in the 18th century. A Huguenot ( French Protestant), he came to London with his parents, fleeing persecution in France. His success lay in his own exceptional creativity in producing stunning objects, but also in his ability as a businessman, retailing some astonishingly spectacular silver using the most effective and innovative suppliers in the trade.\r\n\r\nThe silver shown here is associated with de Lamerie’s most brilliant craftsman, whose identity is still a mystery, who worked from 1737 to 1745.  He is known as the Maynard Master, named after the dish made for Grey, 5th Baron Maynard now in the Cahn family collection."}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"silver","id":"AAT11029"}],"techniques":[{"text":"casting","id":"AAT53104"},{"text":"chasing","id":"AAT54016"},{"text":"engraving (incising)","id":"AAT53829"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Cast, chased and engraved silver","categories":[{"text":"Drinking","id":"THES48965"},{"text":"Metalwork","id":"THES48920"},{"text":"Silver","id":"THES251836"}],"styles":[{"text":"Rococo","id":"AAT21155"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"MET","id":"THES48599"},"images":["2009CA2613","2009CA2660"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"004","id":"THES412613"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"punch ladle","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"assayed","id":"x42656"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1738-1739","earliest":"1738-01-01","latest":"1739-12-31"},"association":{"text":"hallmarked","id":"x32454"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on Loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","value":"37.2","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Weight","value":"415","unit":"g","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"The object's function as a punch ladle is clearly indicated by the use of vine and hop motifs in the decoration. P. A. S. Phillips, writing in 1935 (p. 103), suggested that \"this is probably a unique specimen\", but a virtually identical, although unmarked, ladle appeared at Christie's in 1977 (Clayton 1985B, p. 184, no. 3) (Schroder, 1988, p. 237)\n\nProvenance: Possibly Phillips Garden, sale, 1751.  Lord Cranworth, sale, Christie's, lot 103 (sold with a soup tureen by Phillips Garden), April 15, 1931.  Crichton Brothers, London.  Sale, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, lot 72, June 4, 1974.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Cast, chased and engraved silver punch ladle; London hallmarks for 1738-39, mark of Paul de Lamerie","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Phillips, P.A.S.  <u>Paul de Lamerie, citizen and goldsmith of London: A study of his life and work, 1688-1757</u>. London: B.T. Batsford, 1935, p. 103, pls. 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The delicate modelling of detail, although a little worn through use, is characteristic of the silver associated with de Lamerie’s virtuoso modeller,  the enigmatic ‘Maynard Master’. De Lamerie regularly supplied  ladles for bowls and tureens.\r\n\r\nLOAN:GILBERT.732\r\n","date":{"text":"01/06/2009","earliest":"2009-06-01","latest":"2009-06-01"}}],"partNumbers":["LOAN:GILBERT.732-2008"],"accessionNumberNum":"732","accessionNumberPrefix":"LOAN:GILBERT","accessionYear":2008,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Arthur Gilbert Number","id":"THES50383"},"number":"SG 55"},{"type":{"text":"LACMA","id":"THES57415"},"number":"M.77.2.6"},{"type":{"text":"The Gilbert Collection, Somerset House","id":"THES50384"},"number":"1996.30"},{"type":{"text":"Arthur Gilbert Number","id":"THES50383"},"number":"SG 362 i"},{"type":{"text":"The Gilbert Collection, Somerset House","id":"THES50384"},"number":"2001.10"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2018LC2693","2019LR6328","2019LV1951","2019LW2329"],"recordModificationDate":"2026-05-01","recordCreationDate":"2008-06-19","availableToBook":false}}