Tea kettle
Pierre Le Cheaube
Category
Silver
Date
1726 - 1727
Materials
Sterling silver
Measurements
22.9 x 23.5 x 16.8 cm
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Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 852071.1
Summary
Tea kettle, sterling silver, Pierre Le Cheaube, London, 1726-7. The plain kettle, which is raised, is of compressed spherical form with an applied, seamed foot ring. The flush circular lid, with a crudely pierced later steam hole and a cast baluster finial with ivory knop, has a flush-five-part pin hinge. The S-shaped spout is cast in two pieces and has a C-Scroll moulding at the lip. The bases top the button hinges of the plain bail handle are cast and soldered to the body of the kettle. The wickering of the upper part of the handle may be original. Heraldry: On the side of the kettle, with the spout to the left, have been re-engraved c.1751 the quartered shield, supporters and motto of the 2nd Earl of Bristol in an ermine mantling and beneath an earl’s coronet.
Full description
For further detail see master object.
Provenance
Probably 1st Earl of Bristol; by descent to the 4th Marquess of Bristol; accepted by the Treasury in lieu of death duties in 1956 and transferred to the National Trust.
Credit line
Ickworth, the Bristol Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Underside : Hallmarks: fully marked on underside with maker’s mark ‘PC’ between club and five-pointed star in extended octagon (Arthur Grimwade, London Goldsmiths 1697-1837, 1990, no. 2145), sterling lion, leopard’s head, date letter ‘L’. Underside: Scratchweight: '52=6'. Also light '4950'. Underside: Round paper label lined blue ‘28’; rectangular paper label ‘V & A No 52 1957-8’.
Makers and roles
Pierre Le Cheaube, goldsmith previously catalogued as attributed to Paul Crespin and Frederick Kandler (d.1778), goldsmith
References
James Rothwell, Silver for Entertaining: The Ickworth Collection. Philip Wilson Publishers, 2016, cat. 14