Wine cooler
Joseph Preedy
Category
Silver
Date
1797 - 1808
Materials
Silver
Measurements
30.0 x 26.8 cm; 5516 g (Weight); 26.8 cm (Diameter)
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 516463.1
Summary
A wine cooler and stand (from a matched set of four), silver-gilt (sterling), marks of William Pitts & Joseph Preedy, or William Pitts on his own, London, 1797/8-1806/7, and an associated bowl, silver-gilt (sterling), mark of William Pitts, London 1807/08. The wine cooler comprises a body, a collar and a liner applied with cast decoration and borders. The urn-shaped body stands on an undecorated circular foot ring, which supports a cast moulded border of laurel leaves and berries. The short trumpet-shaped stem is raised and embossed with fluting; at the top is a cast everted border of stiff leaves. The conical calyx is applied with large acanthus leaves, which project beyond the narrow border of laurel leaves above. The slightly sloping sides of the matted body are applied with a broad sculptural frieze depicting The Triumph of Bacchus, with a young Bacchus in a chariot drawn by panthers, and a drunken Silenius on a donkey. They are attended by a boy riding a goat, dancers, musicians and small boys. Suspended beneath the rim is an openwork festoon of vine leaves and grapes. On either side the mask of a bearded satyr sits beneath a small cast double loop handle. The rim is applied with a gadroon and shell border. The circular collar is raised, slightly concave, and fluted. Soldered to the top it is a horizontal reeded border capped with small leaves; at the base is a flange. The cylindrical liner is seamed and undecorated. The stand is circular, raised and applied with four cast scroll feet. The broad dished border is embossed with alternating stop flutes and matting. The rim is applied with a cast border of gadroons, shells and scrolls. The central platform has a vertical cast border of decorative reeding, vine leaves and grapes, which holds the foot of the wine cooler in place. The associated, almost hemispherical bowl is raised with an embossed and chased fluted border beneath a cast rim of gadroons, shells and scrolls. Heraldry: The wine cooler and bowl are engraved on the foot with two crests surmounted by mottoes beneath a viscount’s coronet for DUNCAN-HALDANE, Viscounts Duncan of Camperdown later Earls of Camperdown of Lundie and Gleneagles, of: (a) on waves of the sea a dismasted ship, for DUNCAN, motto: disce patti; (b) an eagle’s head, for HALDANE, motto: suffer.
Full description
For further details see master object entry.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, the Fairhaven Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Joseph Preedy, goldsmith