Egg cup frame
Peter Archambo I (d.1759)
Category
Silver
Date
1740
Materials
Silver
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 932563
Summary
Triangular silver egg cup frame and ten egg cups, by Peter Archambo, 1740/41. Literature: James Lomax and James Rothwell, 'Country House Silver from Dunham Massey, The National Trust, 2006, cat. 21, pp. 70-71. All eggcups marked DUN/S/453
Provenance
George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington (1675-1758), and thence by descent; sold at auction at Christie's, 20 April 1921, lot 48; bought by Lady Carnarvon; Thomas Lumley Ltd, 1951; purchased by the National Trust from Titus Kendall following an export licence deferral, 1998, for £120,000 funded by a grant from the V&A Purchase Grant Fund grant of £35,000, a grant from the National Art Collections Fund of £35,000 and with £25,000 from the Mrs B.C. Whiteley bequest.
Makers and roles
Peter Archambo I (d.1759), silversmith