Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 18
A Spanish ewer or sprinkler, early 18th century
29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £892.50 inc. premium
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A Spanish ewer or sprinkler, early 18th century
Of fluted baluster form with a grooved scroll handle, the slender spout with a trailed rim in clear glass, the integrated cover with a pointed finial, raised on a circular footring, 20.2cm high
Footnotes
Provenance
Lady 'Lili' Maria Elisabeth Augusta Cartwright (née von Sandizell)
Thence by descent to her son, William Cornwallis Cartwright, Aynhoe Park, Oxfordshire
Thence by family descent to the present owner
Ewers or canadelles such as this may have had an ecclesiastical purpose as the fixed cover with the lack of any opening other than the spout would make them impractical for use at a table. Two ewers of similar form are depicted in a painting of Misa de San Pedro Pascual by Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa (Spanish, 1600-1667), now in the Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, and fragments of similar ewers have been recovered from excavations at Poblet Monastery, Catalonia. See Alice Wilson Frothingham, Hispanic Glass (1941), p.40, fig.28 and pp.42-3 for a detailed discussion.
