HO FRENCH PAINTED BRONZE: FIGURAL BRONZES
Depth: 4^5 /s in. (11.7 cm)
Accession number 88 .SB.113.1-.2PROVENANCE
Private collection, Chateau de la Chesaie,
Eaubonne (sold, Sotheby's, Monaco,
February 5,1978, lot 20); purchased at that
sale by The British Rail Pension Fund.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Acquisitions/1988," GettyMusJ 17 (1989),
no. 78, p. 144, illus.PAINTED BRONZE!
FIGURAL BRONZES- Pair of Decorative Bronzes
Paris; silver, 1738-1750; bronzes, 1745-1749
The lacquer painting of the figures is
attributed to Etienne-Simon Martin and
Guillaume Martin
Painted bronze; silver
The base of each bronze is stamped with
the crowned Cfor 1745-1749. Each silver
element is marked with a crowned F(the
wardens mark used between October 4,
1738, and October 12,1739); a fox's head
(the Paris discharge mark for small works
in silver and gold used between October 4,
1738, and October 12,1744); and a helmet
with open visor (the Paris discharge mark
for works in gold and small works in old
silver used between October 13,1744, and
October 9, 1750). The silver also bears an
obliterated mark which might be a charge
or maker's mark.
Height: 9 in. (22.8 cm); Diameter: 6 in.
(15.2 cm)
Accession number 88 .DH.127.1-.2
PROVENANCE
Marquise de Pompadour, Paris, before 1752;
[Kraemer et Cie, Paris]; private collection,
Paris, purchased circa 1910; [Jean-Luc
Chalmin, Paris, 1988].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Livre-Journal de Lazare Duvaux, Marchand-
Bijoutier ordinaire du Roy, 1/48-1758, Louis
Courajod, ed. (Paris, 1873), vol. 2, p. 135,
no. 1213; "Acquisitions/1988," GettyMusJij
(1989), no. 72, p. 142, illus.; Handbook 1991,
p. 172, illus. (one).SILVER- Fountain
Paris, 1661-1663, with English alterations of
1695, 1758, and circa 1762
Jean IV Le Roy, probably altered in London
in 1695 by Ralph Leeke, in 1758 by Phillips
Garden, and again later in the eighteenth
century
Silver
Marked on body with the maker's stamp
of J.L.R. flanking a scepter and the device
of a laurel wreath and two grains below a
fleur-de-lys; a crowned R (the warden's
mark used between December 30,1661,
and January 26,1663). Scratched with the
weights 34814 (partially obliterated) and
363 13 under base. Engraved with the arms
of Curzon and Colyear on central cartouche.
Height: 2 ft. i^5 /s in. (65.2 cm); Width:
ι ft. 2V8 in. (35.9 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 2% in.
(36.2 cm)
Accession number 82 .DG.17
PROVENANCE
In England by 1694, when probably adapted
from a lidded one-handled vase with a spout
mounted higher, and when a matching
fountain and two basins were made by Ralph
Leeke; Sir Nathaniel Curzon, ist Baron
Scarsdale (born 1726, married Caroline
Colyear 1750, died 1804), Kedleston Hall,
Derbyshire, by 1750; Earls of Scarsdale,
Kedleston Hall, by descent (offered for sale,
Christie's, London, July 16,1930, lot 42,
bought in; offered for sale, Christie's,
One of a pair 184