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He gave him considerable freedom to produce designs in the fullest and most imaginative rococo taste. This ewer and companion dish were produced in the middle of de Lamerie's career, when his powers of inventiveness were at their zenith and they are part of one of the most interesting groups of English 18th century plate ever produced. They demonstrate the quality of modelling associated with the most sophisticated rococo silver produced in London in the mid-18th century.\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":"Silver helmet-shaped ewer standing on a shaped circular foot chased with flowers, waves and a lizard, the stem modeled as a kneeling putto, the body chased with a figure of Neptune in a seascape. 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By descent to the earl of Portarlington. Colonel A. Heywood-Lonsdale, sale, Christie's, lot 126, 27/06/1956. Sir George Dowty. Purchased from J. H. Bourdon-Smith, Ltd., London, 1971.","historicalContext":"This ewer is accompanied by a spectacular basin and the set were intended for display on a dining room buffet to emphasize the status of the patron. Although the 6th Earl's father lived at 30 Burlington Street, London, in c.1721, see the basement plan designed by Lord Burlington in the V&A (E.2124:100-1992) by the early 1740s the 6th Earl and Countess of Mountrath lived in Grosvenor Square, in London's fashionable Mayfair. A similar commission from the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, dates from 1741, and is still used for display on the buffet in the dining hall of the London guild which controls the quality of the production of silver in the British metropolis, and which Paul de Lamerie served as a Warden. \n\nAlgernon Coote, 6th Earl of Mountrath was born and educated in London and represented Castle Rising, Norfolk as MP from 1724-34 and Hedon, Yorkshire from 1742-1744. His wife outlived him by 22 years, and in her will specified a legacy of £2500 for the construction of a vault and a monument in the Holles Chapel, Westminster Abbey. The monument was designed by William Chambers and executed by Joseph Wilton and featured figures of the 6th Earl and Countess of Mountrath.","briefDescription":"Silver, London hallmarks for 1742-3, mark of Paul de Lamerie","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Edwards, R., and L.L.G. Ramsay, eds. The Connoisseur Period Guide to the Houses, Decorations, Furnishings and Chattels of the Classic Periods.. New York: Reynal and Company, 1957-58, vol. 3, pp. 76, 78, pl. 41.; Timothy Schroder, The Gilbert Collection of Gold and Silver, Los Angeles, 1988, pp. 250-255 "},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"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. 163, no. 336"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Grimwade, Arthur. Rococo Silver, 1727-1765. London: Faber and Faber, 1974, p. 48, pl. 54B. ISBN.0671105262"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Hillier, Bevis. 'The Gilbert Collection of Silver'. The Connoisseur, June 1976, vol. 192, no.772, p.118, nos. 8A, 8B."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Bowman, Leslie Greene. 'Huguenot & Rococo Riches'. The Antique Collector, vol. 56, no. 11, November 1985, p. 107, fig. 9"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Clayton, Michael. The Collector's dictionary of the silver and gold of Great Britain and North America. 2nd ed. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 1985, no. 336"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Schroder, Timothy. 'Evidence without documents: Patterns of Ornament in Rococo and Regence silver'. 'Rococo Silver in England and its Colonies'. Papers from a symposium at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 2004. Silver Studies: The Journal of the Silver Society, Number 20. London: The Silver Society, 2006, p.62, fig 98."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Schroder, Timothy. The Gilbert collection of gold and silver. Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 1988, cat. no. 65, pp. 249-255. ISBN.0875871445"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Schroder, Timothy, ed. The Gilbert Collection at the V&A. 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