Ellis Finch
Head of Knightsbridge Silver Department
Lot 22
An impressive Victorian cast silver 'Diana' ewer by Samuel Hayne & Dudley Carter, London 1855, underside also incuse stamped '7399'
30 January 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £6,250 inc. premium
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An impressive Victorian cast silver 'Diana' ewer
by Samuel Hayne & Dudley Carter, London 1855, underside also incuse stamped '7399'
The high scrolling handle decorated with fish scales, acanthus leaves and bead garlands with a figure of Diana the Huntress standing at the base, the ornate fluted neck draped with a laurel garland and a figure of Diana with a pair of hounds, the baluster body with a relief panel to one side of Diana and her nymphs observing her hounds bringing down a stag, the other side with Diana and her entourage after the kill, the two panels separated by an armorial shield within a relief cartouche, raised on an asymmetric spreading and scrolling foot, height 45cm, weight 86.7oz.
The high scrolling handle decorated with fish scales, acanthus leaves and bead garlands with a figure of Diana the Huntress standing at the base, the ornate fluted neck draped with a laurel garland and a figure of Diana with a pair of hounds, the baluster body with a relief panel to one side of Diana and her nymphs observing her hounds bringing down a stag, the other side with Diana and her entourage after the kill, the two panels separated by an armorial shield within a relief cartouche, raised on an asymmetric spreading and scrolling foot, height 45cm, weight 86.7oz.
Footnotes
The arms are those of James Dearden FSA (1798-1861) of The Orchard (Rochdale Manor), Rochdale. In 1829 he married Jane Griffith of Carnarwen, Wales. James Dearden's mother, Frances Ferrand, was a co-heiress of Robert Royds. James Dearden's paternal great-great-great-grandmother was the heiress Jane Ingham of Clegg Woods.
Literature:
The current lot is illustrated in John Culme, 'Nineteenth Century Silver' (London 1977), page 153.
