Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

FRENCH SILVER 113

Overall Height: $Vi6 in. (14.1 cm); Bowl:
Height: 5M6 in. (13.2 cm); Width: yVs in.
(18.7 cm); Depth: 5^3 /s in. (13.6 cm); Stand:
Height: Vs in. (2.3 cm); Diameter: yVi6 in.
(18.2 cm)
Accession number 84.DH.74.1.2a— .2b

PROVENANCE

Hans Backer, London; Martin Norton,

London.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Nieda, "Acquisitions 1984," no. 2, pp. 72-76,

illus.; "Acquisitions/1984," GettyMusJi^

(1985), no. 52, p. 177, illus.

Pair of Sugar Castors

Paris, 1743

By Simon Gallien

Silver

Each castor is marked with the maker's

stamp of S.G., a sun and two grains below a

crowned fleur-de-lys; a crowned C (the war­

den's mark used between May 30,1743, and

July 6,1744); a crowned A (the charge mark

used between October 4,1738, and Octo­

ber 13,1744, under the fermierLouis Robin);

a fox's head (the discharge mark used on

small silver objects between October 4,1738,

and October 13,1744); a salmon's head (the

discharge mark used on small silver objects

between October 13,1744, and October 10,

1750, under the fermier Antonie Leschaudel);

a fly (the countermark used between Octo­

ber 13,1744, and October 10,1750, under

the fermier Antoine Leschaudel); a laurel

leaf (the countermark used between Octo­

ber 13,1756, and November 22,1762, under

the fermier'Eloy Brichard); an open right

hand (the countermark used between

November 22,1762, and December 23,1768,

under the fermier Jean-Jacques Prévost); an

TV inscribed in an oval (the Dutch date letter

for 1822 for works in precious metal); and

an ax (a Dutch standard mark used since

1852 for old silver objects returned to circu­

lation). The base of castor .1 is inscribed

409\ the base of castor .2 is inscribed 409A.

Castor .1: Height: 10%. in. (26 cm);

Diameter: 4% in. (11.5 cm); Castor .2:

Height: ιοΥχ in. (26.6 cm); Diameter:

45 /8 in. (11.7 cm)

Accession number 84 .DG.744.1-.2

PROVENANCE

Ε J. E. Horstmann (sold, Frederik Müller,

Amsterdam, November 19-21,1919, lot 178);

Jean-Louis Bonnefoy, Paris; Sir Robert Abdy,

Bt., Newton Ferrers, Cornwall; by descent to

Sir Valentine Abdy; [S. J. Phillip^ London].

BIBLIOGRAPHY

"Acquisitions/1984," GettyMusJ'13 (1985),

no. 53, p. 178, illus.

One of a pair 189

188

189.