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Its form generally followed that of teapots, with the exception of the position of the handle. By about 1725 the tripod stand enclosing a lamp had become a standard feature. The ensemble was sometimes completed with a salver.  Nearly 40 kettles by de Lamerie are recorded, spanning the period from 1713 to 1751.\n\nThe arms are those of Lequesne impaling Knight are for Sir John Lequesne (d. 1741) and Mary Knight; they were married by the Bishop of Norwich on 1 May 1738 at St. Peter le Poer, City of London. Mary Knight is said to have had a dowry of £20,000 (J. Bertrand Payne, <u>An Armorial of Jersey</u>, 1859, p. 250). Sir John Lequesne, a Huguenot merchant who was knighted by George II in 1738, was an alderman of the City of London, Master of the Grocers’ Company of London, 1736-37 and a Director of the Bank of England from 1738 until his death. A wealthy merchant, he seems to have accrued his fortune as an importer of sugar and tobacco. In 1724 he and his brother, David Lequesne (d. 1753) were among several London traders who responded to an enquiry from The Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations relating to duties on those commodities. This is significant because included in the decoration of this silver tea kettle and lampstand and his celebrated de Lamerie coffee pot (London, 1738, offered at Christie’s, London, 4 July 2013, lot 48) are the leaves of sugar cane and tobacco sprays and plants. It is suggested that a salver was ordered by Lady Lequesne to compliment the other de Lamerie pieces in her possession, possibly as a stand for the above-mentioned coffee pot of 1738 ( see Sotheby's  4 May 2017 lot 30. Information kindly provided by Alice Minter 31/03/17). \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":"Kettle is a compressed spherical form with a rim foot. Two large cartouches with scrolls, shells and laurel leaves with the bust of a putto above are applied to the body. Each cartouche is engraved with a coat of arms, those of Lesquesne impaling Knight. The upper part of the body is flat-chased ith scrolls, shells and trelliswork. Shells are chased on the flush cover, which has an ovory finial. The handle is affixed to applied scrolls and is covered in wicker.\r\n\r\nThe stand with gadroon-and-scalework border rests on three paw-, scroll-and-foliage feet, with flower-, scroll-and-mask swags between. It holds a plain, circular lamp and cover.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Lamerie, Paul de","id":"A8591"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"x40240"},"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. \r\n"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"silver","id":"AAT11029"},{"text":"ivory","id":"AAT11857"}],"techniques":[{"text":"casting","id":"AAT53104"},{"text":"raising","id":"AAT237068"},{"text":"soldering","id":"AAT53949"},{"text":"flat-chasing","id":"AAT233402"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Cast, raised and flat-chased sterling silver with ivory","categories":[{"text":"Metalwork","id":"THES48920"},{"text":"Tea, Coffee & Chocolate wares","id":"THES48886"},{"text":"Containers","id":"THES48972"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"MET","id":"THES48599"},"images":["2009CA2666","2009CA2695","2009CA2694","2009CA2664","2009CA2663","2009CA2661","2009CA2620","2009CA2615","2009CA2614"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"72A","id":"THES413998"},"free":"","case":"CA002","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"72A","id":"THES413998"},"free":"","case":"CA002","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"72A","id":"THES413998"},"free":"","case":"CA002","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"72A","id":"THES413998"},"free":"","case":"CA002","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"kettle","id":""}],[{"text":"stand","id":""}],[{"text":"lamp","id":""}],[{"text":"lamp cover","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":"1736-1738","earliest":"1736-05-29","latest":"1738-05-28"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"LOAN:GILBERT.676-2008","id":"O157047"},"association":""}],"creditLine":"The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"33.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Weight","value":"2310","unit":"g","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"23.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"17.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Measured 30/04/24 IW ","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"The kettle engraved with a coat of arms of Lesquesne impaling Knight","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":"London hallmark 1736-37","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":"Mark of Paul de Lamerie","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Marked under the base of the kettle and on the reverse of the salver and part marked three times under the base of the lamp; the cover and stand unmarked"},{"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":""}],"objectHistory":"Provenance: Sir John Lesquesne, London; His widow Mary Lequesne married Robert, 1st Earl of Catherlough (1702-1772) as his second wife on 18 June 1756. She died in 1795 and by her will, signed on 20 June 1793 and\r\nproved on 3 December 1795, bequeathed all her ‘Household Goods Furniture Plate Linen and China’\r\nto her goddaughter, Miss Mary Rand of Hampton, Middlesex;  John Gabbitas, sale, Sotheby's, lot 172, June 27, 1929.  William Randolph Hearst, sale, Sotheby's, lot 30, November 17, 1937.  Bryan Jenks, sale, Christie's, lot 35, June 16, 1965.  Sir George Dowty.  Purchased from J.H. Bourdon-Smith Ltd., London, 1972.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Silver kettle with ivory finial on cover and silver stand and lamp; London hallmarks for 1736-1737, mark of Paul de Lamerie","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Schroder, Timothy <u>The Gilbert collection of gold and silver</u>, Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 1988, cat. no. 58, pp. 229-33.  ISBN.0875871445; Tessa Murdoch,  ‘Silver at the French Hospital’, <i>Silver Studies, The Journal of the Silver Society</i>, no.25, 2009, pp.63-73, illustrated p.68."},{"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, pp.100-101, pl. CXIV."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Christie's Review of the Year 1964-1965</u>. London: Constable, p. 133."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Hillier, Bevis. 'The Gilbert Collection of Silver'.  <u>The Connoisseur</u>, June 1976, vol. 192, no. 772, pp. 114, 116, nos. 5-6, 118."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Bowman, Leslie Greene. 'Huguenot & Rococo Riches'. <u>The Antique Collector</u>, vol. 56, no. 11, November 1985, p. 107, fig. 5."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Brett, Vanessa. <u>The Sotheby's Directory of Silver, 1600-1940</u>.  London: Sotheby's Publications, 1986, pl. 718."}],"production":"Kettle hallmarked 1737-38, lamp hallmarked 1736-37","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"shells","id":"x30562"},{"text":"putti","id":"AAT250465"},{"text":"cartouches","id":"AAT10256"},{"text":"scrolls (motifs)","id":"AAT10094"},{"text":"laurel (foliage)","id":"x39040"},{"text":"coats of arms","id":"AAT126352"},{"text":"floral trelliswork","id":"x35087"},{"text":"gadroons","id":"x38295"},{"text":"paw feet","id":"AAT40650"},{"text":"scroll feet","id":"AAT40662"},{"text":"festoons","id":"AAT167386"},{"text":"masks (design elements)","id":"x30275"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"13. Kettle, Stand and Lamp\n1736-37\n\nThis kettle was made by the prolific Huguenot silversmith Paul de Lamerie, who as a Protestant was forced to flee his native France for England to escape religious persecution. It was created to mark the marriage of fellow Huguenot Sir John LeQuesne to Miss Knight in April 1738. LeQuesne served as Director of the French Hospital from 1736 and Sheriff of the City of London in 1739.\n\nLondon, England; Paul de Lamerie (1688-1751)\nSilver, wicker, ivory\nMuseum no. Loan:Gilbert.675-2008","date":{"text":"17/03/2021","earliest":"2021-03-17","latest":"2021-03-17"}},{"text":"Kettle, Stand and Lamp\r\nLondon, England1736-37;\r\nPaul de Lamerie (1688-1751)\r\nSilver, wicker, ivory\r\n\r\nMade for the marriage of Sir John Le Quesne to Miss Knight in April 1738.  As a Huguenot, le Quesne served as Director of the French Hospital from 1736 and Sheriff of the City of London in 1739.  In the 1920s, William Randolph Hearst was captivated by this extraordinary kettle.\r\n\r\nLOAN:GILBERT.675","date":{"text":"01/06/2009","earliest":"2009-06-01","latest":"2009-06-01"}}],"partNumbers":["LOAN:GILBERT.675:4-2008","LOAN:GILBERT.675:3-2008","LOAN:GILBERT.675:2-2008","LOAN:GILBERT.675:1-2008"],"accessionNumberNum":"675","accessionNumberPrefix":"LOAN:GILBERT","accessionYear":2008,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Arthur Gilbert Number","id":"THES50383"},"number":"SG43"},{"type":{"text":"The Gilbert Collection, Somerset House","id":"THES50384"},"number":"1996.871"},{"type":{"text":"LACMA","id":"THES57415"},"number":"M.77.2.5"},{"type":{"text":"Arthur Gilbert Number","id":"THES50383"},"number":"SG 122B"},{"type":{"text":"The Gilbert Collection, Somerset House","id":"THES50384"},"number":"1996.907"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE","lamp cover","lamp","stand","kettle"],"assets":["2018LC1963","2019LP3680","2019LU3492","2019LU2788","2019LU1141","2019LW9442","2019LW7406","2019LW2566"],"recordModificationDate":"2026-05-12","recordCreationDate":"2008-09-04","availableToBook":false}}