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Bottle and stand

Heming, Thomas
Giles, James
Unknown

Scent bottle (stopper missing) and stand; the bottle blue glass, square with cut corners and facetted shoulders, short neck with cut rim, gilt decoration comprising chinese pheasants in a landscape on two sides and a flower spray on two sides, cut corners with on all over trellis and dot pattern, facetted shoulders with repeating pattern of leaves and circles within dots. Stand, yellow silver gilt, square bombe shape with canted corners, flat base, raised on eight scroll feet, each side cast and chased with a pierced panel comprising a shell and flower trail within C-scrolls, divided by matted acanthus, up-curving knurled rim, the underside engraved with a plain shield bearing the arms of Williams-Wynn impaling Somerset.

This spectacular toilet service was given as a gift by Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn’s mother to her new daughter-in-law, Henrietta Somerset, in 1768. Silver toilet services, comprising a mirror, candlesticks and boxes for jewellery and patches, became a symbol of rank and high status from the 1660s. They were displayed on dressing tables with rich lace covers. Thomas Heming was principal goldsmith to the King, and this service is similar to the one he had made two years earlier for the Queen of Denmark.

Thomas Heming Toilet  Set (Picture of the collection) {2408T} one thumbnail on each record for CMS please.
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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 50414

Creation/Production

Heming, Thomas
Giles, James
Unknown
Date: 1768 ca –

Acquisition

Purchase - ass. of NACF
Purchased with support from The National Art Collections Fund

Measurements

Height (cm): 11.4
diam (cm): 5
Height (in): 4
diam (in): 2
Height (cm): 6.4
diam (cm): 7.6
Height (in): 3
diam (in): 3
h(cm) overall:13
h(cm)
h(in) overall:5 1/8
h(in)

Techniques

mould-blown
forming
Applied Art
cut
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
cast
forming
Applied Art
chased
decoration
Applied Art
engraved
decoration
Applied Art

Material

glass
silver gilt

Location

Gallery 04 : Case 03

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