Ewer, one of a pair
On display
Ormolu, or gilded bronze, became particularly popular in France following Louis XIV's late seventeenth-century sumptuary edicts prohibiting the production of silver plate. It was, however, less popular elsewhere in Europe. The rococo design of these ewers is based on an engraving by Agostino Veneziano in the Victoria and Albert Museum, dated 1531.
Details
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Title
Ewer, one of a pair
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Associated place
England (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1740 - 1770
1735 -
Material and technique
cailloux d'Egitto (jasper), mounted in ormolu (fire gilt copper)
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Object type
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Dimensions
34.4 cm (height)
10.4 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Bequeathed by J. Francis Mallett, 1947.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 55 | Silver -
Museum department
Western Art
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Accession no.
WA1947.191.182.1
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Further reading
Penny, Nicholas, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum: 1540 to the Present Day, 3 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992)
Schroder, Timothy, British and Continental Gold and Silver in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 2009), 596
