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Ewer c.1760

Silver, parcel gilt | 31.2 x 22.6 x 12.2 cm (whole object) | RCIN 46519

  • The parcel-gilt ewer has a broad spout, waved rim with folded lip, double-scroll handle, bulbous lower body, knopped stem and domed foot. It is embossed and chased with writhen fluting, scrolls, torn-leaf decoration and shells, foliage and scale patterns. The gilding is applied to alternate flutes.

    This ewer has traditionally been associated with a basin (RCIN 50196) and the surface decoration and marks suggest that they belong together, although the ewer is made of metal of a much thinner gauge than the basin and the latter appears to have been re-shaped at some point in its history.

    The ewer was made in the city of Freising, better known for its glass production. The few goldsmiths of the seventeenth century known to have worked in Freising were largely involved in the supply of church plate.

    Ewer struck on foot with city mark of Freising and maker's mark, PW.
    Provenance

    First recorded in the Royal Collection in 1914.

  • Creator(s)
  • Medium and techniques

    Silver, parcel gilt

    Measurements

    31.2 x 22.6 x 12.2 cm (whole object)

    874.8 g (Weight) (whole object)