The Mildmay monteith
George Garthorne
- Art Funded
- 2000
- Dimensions
- 14 x 29 cm
- Vendor
- AH Whiteley Settlement Trust
Silver bowl with a notched brim and engraved with exotic oriental figures, plants and birds.
It has a shield with the engraved arms of the Mildmay family. It was designed to let drinking vessels hang in the notches to cool them.
Provenance
Mildmay family; Christie's 1983; Jamime Ortiz Patino; Sotheby's, New York 1992; acquired by present vendor.