Object Description
A magnificent silver samovar of inverted pear form with a folding turned baluster wooden handle. Very large and impressive. Superb quality deep chased foliate scroll decoration and cast flower lid finial. Hand engraved to the front and reverse with an armorial and stag crest. The matching stand has an ornate cast and pierced frieze, and stands on large shaped feet; the integral oil reservoir with a push on top.
Weight 2468g, 79 troy oz.
Total height 38cm. Kettle height 26cm (handle extended). Spread 25.5cm.
London 1758.
Maker Samuel Courtauld.
Sterling silver.
Marks. Stamped below the kettle body and stand with a full set of English silver hallmarks, the lid with the maker and lion mark, burner cap unmarked.
Arms. The arms are those of Despayne impaling Hackluyt or Lenthall, possibly of Burford, Oxfordshire or Bessels Leigh, Berkshire.
Maker: Samuel Courtauld I
Samuel Courtauld I ((1720–1765), London silversmith, apprenticed to his father Augustin Courtauld 1734, free 1747. 1st mark entered as largeworker 1746. 2nd mark 1751. He married Louisa Perina Ogier in 1749 and they had 4 daughters and 3 sons of whom the eldest, Samuel II (1752 1821), followed his father into the Goldsmith’s trade. On Samuel I’s death in 1765 his wife Louisa Perina continued the family business and entered her own widow’s mark.
Samuel Courtald I’s work is quite rare as few pieces of his work have survived and Grimwade describes Samuel’s silverwares as “characterised by a mild rococo taste, attractively executed…”.
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