A service for wine. (Macclesfield silver)

The Magazine Antiques | June 1, 1998| | Copyright

The unique service for wine illustrated in Plate II is the ultimate expression of baroque taste and extravagance, chosen by a newly ennobled politician as a symbol of his new status at the peak of English society. The fountain, cistern, and cooler bear the arms and crest of Thomas Parker, first earl of Macclesfield [ILLUSTRATION FOR PL. I OMITTED]. The service was made in the London workshop of Anthony Nelme in Britannia standard silver with the date letter for 1719/20.

Massive, theatrical silver displayed in the dining room was familiar from the Middle Ages onward, but ...

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