S8: Porringer and cover
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| Museum number | S8 |
| Title | Porringer and cover |
| Object type | In category: Metalwork » Bowls » Porringer |
| Date | Between 1684 and 1685 |
| People |
Attributed to Jackson I, John (Gold and silversmith, active 1681-c.1714) - Gold/silversmith(s) |
| Place of origin | Europe » Northern Europe » British Isles » Great Britain » England » London |
| Condition |
Good |
| Dimensions |
18.3 cm height whole 25.0 cm width whole 17.5 cm depth whole 13.1 cm height body 25.0 cm width body 15.9 cm depth body 5.5 cm height lid 17.5 cm diameter lid |
| Weight |
31.0 ounces whole |
| Materials & techniques |
In category:
Metal
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Silver
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| Description |
Porringer and cover with moulded foot, beaded scroll handles and openwork acanthus finial. Flat-chased on the body and lid with chinoiserie figures, birds and trees. |
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| Marks and inscriptions |
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| Style |
Chinoiserie
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| Notes | A porringer was a two-handled personal eating vessel popular in the seventeenth-century. They were variously used to hold alcoholic mixtures for drinking and gruel and other farinaceous mixtures for eating with a spoon. This example belongs to a group of silver made in London during the 1680s that is decorated with flat-chased chinoiseries. Although made by many different goldsmiths all the pieces are similarly decorated with a picturesque melange of figures wearing richly patterned fanciful costumes with elaborate plumed hats, drapery and parasols and birds, dragons and oversized tropical foliage against rocky landscapes or architectural ruins. The technique uses a stabbed line that is quite unlike other chased work of the period and it has been suggested that a single workshop specialised in flat-chasing finished wares sent from various makers. A further porringer in the collection is similarly decorated though it was much altered in the nineteenth-century (S.11). Both pieces were lent by Holburne to 1868 National Exhibition of Works of Art in Leeds (L626).
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| Literature |
C. Jackson, Silver and Gold Marks of England, 1983 ed., p.140 A. Butcher and E. J. C. Smith, A Catalogue of Silver at the Holburne Museum, Bath, 1996, p.3, no.10 P. Bishop, Holburne Museum of Art , Souvenir Guidebook, 1999, p.44 |
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| Muse theme | The Art of Collecting |
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| Muse chapter |
The History of the Holburne Collection » Sir William Holburne and his Collection » Recognition as a Collector
The History of the Holburne Collection » The Collection » Silver |
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| Gallery Label |
Cup and cover, London, 1684. Maker's mark: II, a pellet between above a fleur-de-lysfor John Jackson. The shape and purpose of this cup is conventionally European, but the engraved decoration on the body and lid is in the Chinese style which was so popular after 1660. Oriental military and ambassadorial figures, birds, insects and flowers have been adapted from contemporary publications.Collection of Sir William Holburne.Museum number: S 8. (Unknown) |
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| Method of acquisition | Bequest | |||||||||
| Provenance | Sir T. W. Holburne (1793-1874); by whom bequeathed to Mary Anne Barbara Holburne (1802-1882); by whom bequeathed to the Museum |
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| Exhibition history |
Title of exhibition: Special Exhibition of Works of Art Title of exhibition: National Exhibition of Works of Art Title of exhibition: Centenary Exhibition of Silver in the Holburne Collection |
