Salt
Edward Farrell
(English, registered in 1813)
Kensington Lewis
(English, 1790–1854)
Cornelis Floris II
(Flemish, 1513 or 1514–1575)
1824–25
Medium/TechniqueGilded silver
DimensionsH. 22.2 cm x W. 16.5 cm x D. 9.3 cm ( 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 x 3 11/16 in.)
Weight: 1,077.3 gm (34 oz 13 dwt)
Weight: 1,077.3 gm (34 oz 13 dwt)
Credit LineTheodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Charlotte Beebe Wilbour
Accession number1989.313
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSilver
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In the first part of the nineteenth century, Farrell worked closely with Kensington Lewis, a leading silver retailer and a promoter of historicism. Lewis and his patron the duke of York, who commissioned this salt, were renowned for their taste in flamboyant, highly sculptural metalwork and extravagant reinterpretations of earlier styles.
InscriptionsARMORIALS: engraved on the lip of both salts to the right of the handle, the Royal crest with the Garter motto and surmounted by a Royal coronet, presumably for the Duke of York.ProvenanceMade for, Frederick Augustus, Duke of York (1763-1827); March 19, 1827, sold from the Estate of the Duke of York at Christie's, London, lots 85-86, and bought by Thomas B. L. By 1953, with the Rt. Hon. Earl Howe; July 1, 1953, sold by Earl Howe at Christie's, London, lot 109. By 1985, Villiers David, Esq.; November 27, 1985, sold from the collection of the late Villiers David, at Christie's, London, lot 122 and bought by Robert Eaton, for Museumpiece, Zurich. By 1989, with James Robinson, Inc., New York; 1989, sold by James Robinson to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 25, 1989)
late 17th century
