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The base decorated with Vitruvian scrolls on ball feet.  \n\nProfile, Full size, 125 x 130 mm. \n","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Baily, Edward Hodges","id":"N11709"},"association":{"text":"Maker","id":"x40240"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Theed, William (The Elder)","id":"A8911"},"association":{"text":"designer","id":"x36960"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"pen and ink","id":"x30618"},{"text":"wash","id":"AAT11051"},{"text":"pencil","id":"x30347"}],"techniques":[{"text":"drawing (image-making)","id":"AAT54196"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Pencil, pen and ink and brown wash on wove paper.\r\nThe sheet is watermarked 1806. 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The figure of Thetis is carried in a shell borne by a triton as shown in the salt. \nThe subject was shown again at the RA in 1812 probably in bronze. An example of this is in the Royal Collection (RCIN 71833).\nThe similarities between this design and E.115 and E.116-1964 suggest that the original design is by William Theed the Elder. \nThe sculptor William Theed the Elder (1764- 1817) worked as a modeller and designer for Rundell, Bridge and Rundell from least 1809 untill his death. \n\nThis design is on folio 22 verso included  in an album containing 55 designs drawn directly on 27 sheets (sometimes several to a page), for gold and silver plate, including wine-coolers, tureens, inkstands, a teapot, a kettle, candelabra etc., related to the production of the Royal goldsmiths Rundell, Bridge and Rundell between c.1809 and c.1820. (E.70- 124-1964)\rThe album pages are of white wove paper watermarked 1806, full-bound in blue leather, gold tooled, lettered on the spine ‘Designs for Plate etc. by John Flaxman’. With the bookplate of John Roland Abbey (1894 –1969). Bound by William Wood. The back fly- leaf is inscribed “JA, 1070/ 13:9:1935”.\rAll the drawings are by one hand, most probably that of the sculptor Edward Hodges Baily. He became a pupil of John Flaxman in 1807, at a time when Flaxman was designing silver for Rundell, Bridge and Rundell. He joined Rundell Bridge and Rundell in 1815 as “a modeller and designer” and in 1826 became its chief modeller and designer. In 1833 he began working for the firm of Storr and Mortimer. \rSome of the drawings are most probably copies by Baily of his own designs, while others are copied or adapted from designs by John Flaxman and Thomas Stothard, as well as other, anonymous, designers. The clean condition of the album, and the range of dates of the pieces shown, in addition to their unchronological arrangement, suggest that the album was made as a fair-copy record of pre-existing design drawings, all made about 1820, although some of the drawings seem also have been used as part of a design process. The drawings copied from John Flaxman and Thomas Stothard imitate the graphic styles of the originals.  \rThe album was bought from Marlborough Rare Books on 24th March 1964 for 550 pounds.\r","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Design for a silver salt cellar by Edward Hodges Baily (1788- 1867) c.1820","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1964.</u> London: HMSO, 1965.\n\nC. Oman, \"A Problem of Artistic Responsibility: The Firm of Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, <u>Apollo Magazine</u>, March 1966, p.174- 183.\n\n\nBury, S. (1966) \"The lengthening shadow of Rundell's\", <u>Connoisseur Magazine</u> CLXI, no.648, p.79; no.649, p.152; no.650, p.218.\n"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"salts","id":"AAT43062"},{"text":"utensils","id":"AAT241917"},{"text":"tritons","id":"x30122"},{"text":"shell","id":"AAT11829"},{"text":"silver-gilt","id":"x37998"}],"contentConcepts":[{"text":"Dining","id":"THES275701"}],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["E.114-1964"],"accessionNumberNum":"114","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1964,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-11-12","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}