Teakettle, lamp, and table

Simon Pantin I

1724–25 · Silver, wood · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Silver furniture—however improbable it may sound—was one of the glories of the French court, and a fashion emulated by ambitious English patrons. Most English examples were achieved by covering a wooden core with sheets of embossed silver, but the baroque stand for this faceted kettle is made of cast-silver components. It was made for George Bowes the year he married the fourteen-year-old Eleanor Verney, daughter and heir of an immensely wealthy father.

Artist

Simon Pantin I

Date

1724–25

Medium

Silver, wood

Culture

British, London

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968