Silver-gilt Ewer [arms of Baron Lionel de Rothschild (1808-1879)], workshop of Robert Garrard, London, 1831.
This silver-gilt ewer is of ribbed ovoid shape with a high-mounted S-scroll cast handle, the edge of the neck cast and applied with an acanthus leaves and egg-and-dart border, the front centre cast and applied with a Romanesque bearded maskhead. It is engraved with the Rothschild family Coat of Arms. It was either comissioned or presented to Baron Lionel de Rothschild, and may have been in his London town house at 148 Piccadilly.
Silver-gilt Salver [for the marriage of Nathaniel de Rothschild (1812-1870) and Charlotte de Rothschild (1825-1899) in 1842], by Mortimer and Hunt, London, 1842.
A round silver-gilt salver, with the family's Austrian arms surmounted by an entwined monogram at the centre, is part of a service given as a gift for the marriage of Nathaniel de Rothschild to his French cousin, Charlotte in Frankfurt in 1842. Nathaniel was the son of Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777-1836) founder of the London Rothschild banking house, and Charlotte was the daughter of James Mayer von Rothschild (1792-1868) founder of the Paris house.
Silver gilt Ewer and Salver [for the marriage of Mayer de Rothschild (1818-1874) and Juliana Cohen (1831-1877) in 1850], workshop of Charles Price, London 1831, and workshop of D & C Houle, London, 1849.
This silver-gilt Willian IV ewer, with a cast figural high-loop handle with satyr and naked classical figure, forming the mounts, has a lidded spout and is applied with cornucopiae. The silver-gilt salver is in the Gothic taste. Both pieces are engraved with a coronet and the monogram ‘MJR’, and were presented as gifts at the wedding of Baron Mayer de Rothschild to Juliana Cohen in 1850. Mayer was the son of Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777-1836). The couple made the grand Mentmore Towers their country home.
