Lamp
Pierre Le Cheaube
Category
Silver
Date
1726 - 1727
Materials
Sterling silver
Measurements
3.5 cm (Height); 7.6 cm (Diameter)
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 852071.3
Summary
Lamp for tea kettle. Sterling silver, Pierre Le Cheaube, London, 1726-7. The lamp is circular and has a flattened base, an applied moulded wire which supports it in the ring and a cast dished cover, the wick fitting of which is absent. Heraldry: The side of the lamp is engraved with the Hervey crest beneath an earl’s coronet.
Full description
For further information see the master object entry.
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’. Heraldry: The side of the lamp is engraved with the Hervey crest beneath an earl’s coronet. Underside: Remnants of V & A label - illegible.
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