Dish with lobed ends and shell handles, and associated cover
Frederick Kandler
Category
Silver
Date
circa 1751 - 1769
Materials
Silver
Measurements
4.4 x 42.2 x 25.4 cm (dish); 18.4 x 30.2 x 19.2 cm (cover)
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 852110.1
Summary
Dish with lobed ends and shell handles, silver, probably by Frederick Kandler, London, circa 1751, and conforming dish cover, sterling silver, Frederick Kandler, London, 1768/9. The dish is raised and has an oval well with a broad rim, straight sides and indented, lobed ends. The cast gadroon border with palm leaves is applied as are the cast and chased shell handles which cover the indents. The cover is raised and has a stepped base conforming to the dish. The base terminates in a chased band of gadrooning and the cover rises as an oval convex dome to another chased gadroon band, then rises again in reverse form to an applied flat top plate, the joint concealed by a cast and seamed moulding. The cast and chased tendril handle is capped by a single flower and held on by a silver bolt and nut. Heraldry: The rim of the dish is engraved with the quartered shield, supporters and motto of the 2nd Earl of Bristol in an ermine mantling and beneath an earl’s coronet. On the front of the cover are engraved the quartered arms of the Hanoverian monarchs (pre-1801) within the Garter and beneath an imperial crown flanked by the initials G R. Hallmarks: Dish - There are no marks contemporary with the piece as it now is. There are redundant hallmarks on the underside of the rim as follows: leopard’s head, lion passant, date letter ‘F’ for 1721 and maker’s mark ‘P∙C’ beneath a shell and above a mullet (Arthur Grimwade, London Goldsmiths 1697-1837, 1990, no. 2143a) for Paul Crespin. Cover: marked on the external face of the rim of the covers with maker’s mark ‘FK’ in italics beneath a fleur-de-lis (Grimwade 1990, no. 692), lion passant, leopard’s head and date letter ‘N’. Scratchweights: dish - ‘N1 [/] 38=14’ and [old] ‘Nº 2 = 33 = 11 [crossed through][/] 33″’; cover - ‘Nº 1 = 33 6’
Full description
For further detail see the master object entry.
Provenance
George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol (1721-75); by descent to the 4th Marquess of Bristol (1863-1951); 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)
Makers and roles
Frederick Kandler, goldsmith