Teakettle, lamp, and table
Simon Pantin I British
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.
#2154. Teakettle, lamp, and table
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