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The urn originally served the same function as the kettle.  Sir John Campbell (1696-1782), for whom it was made, served as ambassador to Russia, Lord of the Admiralty and Keeper of the Privy Seal.\r\n\r\nWhen the Catholic King Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685, Huguenots (French Protestants) were forced to leave France or abjure their faith. Many were craftsmen who settled in London.  Their technical skills and fashionable French style ensured the luxury silver, furniture, watches and jewellery they made were highly sought after.  Huguenot specialists transformed English silver by introducing higher standards of craftsmanship. They promoted new forms, such as the soup tureen and sauceboat, and introduced a new repertoire of ornament, with cast sculptural details and exquisite engraving.\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":"The urn is of inverted baluster form and stands on three scroll feet that are each formed as a lion's paw above a plain, compressed spherical ball, the legs decorated with a lion mask and a scroll molding around the octagonal section above.  The body has a flattened base and applied panels of shellwork at the junctions with the feet.  A cast coat of arms for Sir John Campbell (showing the arms of Campbell with Pershall in pretence surrounded by the badge of the Order of the Bath) is applied to the front and back. The upper part of the body is chased with shells, scrolls, a goat mask, and faun masks on punched matted ground.  The spout is shaped as a bird's head, with a carved ebony spigot in the form of  boar's head, the heraldic crest of the Campbell family.  The scroll handles are chased with foliage and surmounted by a female head.  The hinged, domed cover, chased similarly to the upper part of the body, has an ovolo border and flame finial.  The lamp is also of inverted baluster form chased with flowers and rococo cartouches on a matted ground; it is engraved four times with a crest and coronet.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Archambo, Peter","id":"A12860"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"AAT251917"},"note":"Peter Archambo was apprenticed in 1710 to Jacob Margas, a first generation Huguenot goldsmith from Rouen, through the Butchers' Company; Margas had . His father was a stay-maker and the family name was anglicized from Archambaud. Refugees with that name came to London in the 1680s from the Iles de Ré and d'Oleron near La Rochelle and from Saumur. Archambo took up the freedom of the Goldsmiths' Company in 1720 when he registered his first maker's mark with an address at the sign of the Golden Cup in Green Street. He then moved to Hemmings Row off St Martin's Lane  By 1739, when he registered this his third mark, he was working at the sign of the Golden Cup in Coventry Street. He was succeeded at that address by his son Peter Archambo the Younger who was initially apprenticed to Paul de Lamerie and then transferred to his father's workshop so will have been an assistant when this silver tea-urn was made. Peter Archambo the elder was living in Twickenham at the time of his death in 1759. His brother John, a watch and clockmaker, in business in Princes Street, Leicester Fields, built Ferry House, Twickenham. In 1750 Peter Archambo the younger registered a joint mark with his first cousin Peter Meure (other members of the Meure family came originally from Saumur). \n\nHis most important patron was George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington and silver sconces, wine fountain and table silver by Archambo can be seen at Dunham Massey, Cheshire  (National Trust)."}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"silver","id":"AAT11029"},{"text":"wood","id":"AAT11914"}],"techniques":[{"text":"moulding","id":"AAT53134"},{"text":"applied work","id":"AAT53646"},{"text":"chasing","id":"AAT54016"},{"text":"punching","id":"AAT235631"},{"text":"engraving (incising)","id":"AAT53829"},{"text":"carving","id":"AAT53149"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Silver and ebony","categories":[{"text":"Containers","id":"THES48972"},{"text":"Drinking","id":"THES48965"},{"text":"Metalwork","id":"THES48920"},{"text":"Tea, Coffee & Chocolate wares","id":"THES48886"},{"text":"Silver","id":"THES251836"}],"styles":[{"text":"rococo","id":"AAT21155"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"MET","id":"THES48599"},"images":["2009CC6262","2009CC6266","2009CC6265","2009CC6264","2009CC6263"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"72A","id":"THES413998"},"free":"","case":"CA007","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"72A","id":"THES413998"},"free":"","case":"CA007","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"72A","id":"THES413998"},"free":"","case":"CA007","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"72A","id":"THES413998"},"free":"","case":"CA007","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"body","id":""}],[{"text":"burner","id":""}],[{"text":"cover","id":""}],[{"text":"burner","id":""}],[{"text":"tap","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1742-1743","earliest":"1742-05-29","latest":"1743-05-28"},"association":{"text":"marked","id":"x32454"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"39.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"35.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"36","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Weight","value":"4100","unit":"g","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Measured 26/04/24 IW","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"London hallmarks for 1742-3. The coat of arms of Sir John Campbell, Lord Glenorchy (1696-1782) with Peshall in pretence <i>argent a cross formée florettée sable, on a canton gules, a wolf's head of the first</i> is surrounded by the ribband and motto of the Order of the Bath TRIA JUNCTA IN UNO (Three joined in one). The coat of arms is surmounted by a baron's coronet and supported by <i>two stags purpure attired and unguled or</i>\nThe coat of arms of Campbell <i>Quarterly, 1st and 4th, gyronny of eight or and sable</i> for Campbell , 2nd, <i>or a fesse chequy argent and azure for Stewart</i>; 3rd <i>a lymphad, her sails furled and oars in action all sable for Lorn</i>.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"The marks are under the base and lamp and part marked on the cover and cover of the lamp. \n\nSir John Campbell was made a knight of the 0rder of the Bath in on 17 May 1725 the year that this ancient Order of Chivalry was revived under the style of Lord Glenorchy. The marriage of Glenorchy’s only daughter with Philip Yorke, Lord Chancellor Hardwicke’s son, in 1740 strengthened his ties with the Administration. Returned by the Government for Orford, in 1741, he was made a lord of the Admiralty, but lost his place nine months later after Robert Walpole’s fall. The baron's coronet on the coat of arms may also represent Glenorchy's short lived position as Lord of the Admiralty.\n\nhttp://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/campbell-john-1696-1782  accessed 27 October 2016"},{"content":"Mark of Peter Archambo","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Under the base and lamp and part marked on the cover and cover of the lamp"},{"content":"Applied coat of arms of Campbell with Pershall in pretense and surrounded by the badge of the Order of the Bath, for Sir John Campbell (1696-1782)","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""},{"content":"Sterling standard","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Under the base and lamp and part marked on the cover and cover of the lamp"}],"objectHistory":"Provenance: John Campbell, third earl of Breadalbane..  The Campbell family.  Purchased from Asprey and Company, London, 1986. Campbell had a distinguished career.\n\nCampbell married first in 1712 Lady Amabell de Grey, daughter of Henry Duke of Kent. In 1720 Campbell was appointed envoy-extraordinary and minister-plenipotentiary to the court of Denmark, where he remained until March 1729. While in Copenhagen he was invested with the Order of the Bath at its revival in May 1725 and styled Lord Glenorchy.  After the death of his first wife he remairred Arabella Pershall in 1730. In December 1731 he became ambassador to Russia.\r\n\r\nIn 1727 and 1734 he was elected MP for the borough of Saltash, and between 1741 and 1746 he represented Orford, Suffolk. He gave his support to Sir Robert Walpole's administration, and in May 1741 he was appointed one of the lords of the Admiralty, an office that he held until the dissolution of Walpole's government in 1742. In 1745 he was nominated master of the king's Jewel House. In February 1752 he succeeded his father as earl of Breadalbane; in July of that year he was chosen as a representative peer for Scotland and sat in the Lords (1752-68 and 1774-80). He was appointed lord chief justice in the eyre south of the Trent in 1756, an office he held until October 1765. He was keeper of the privy seal of Scotland (1765-6), was sworn of the privy council in May 1766, and was appointed vice-admiral of Scotland on 26 October 1776. He died at Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, on 26 January 1782.\r\n\r\n","historicalContext":"Peter Archambo was the son of a staymaker of the same name  who fled from Ile d'Oléron and Ile de Ré near La Rochelle in France. He was apprenticed to fellow Huguenot Jacob Margas in 1710 through the Butchers’ rather than Goldsmiths’ Company and obtained his freedom in 1720.  The tea urn bears the sterling standard maker's mark  PA in cursive script registered at Goldsmiths' Hall in 1739. when Archambo's address was at the sign of the Golden Cup, Coventry Street, near Piccadilly, London.  \n\nThis is the earliest known English tea urn, a form that may have originated in Scotland. It may be significant that this was supplied for a Scottish patron who had served as British Ambassador in Russia, where the tea urn or samovar was a national speciality. \n\nPeter Archambo's enjoyed the patronage of George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington. Archambo's spectacular wine fountain, 1728 weighting 575 ounces and 1729  wine cistern weighing 1,024oz can be seen in the museum room at the Earl of Warrington's former home Dunham Massey, Cheshire (National Trust). Archambo supplied Warrington with 13 dozen dinner plates and two dozen soup plates – over 4,000oz of silver. A set of six sconces for the Great Bedchamber, 1730, are embellished in relief with mythological subjects. 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