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ID number: BIRBI-54.5 Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Artist / Maker: English Title / Object name / Definition: Bloodstone bowl and setting Object type: Art object Culture: English Date made: The mounts, London, 1824/5 and the hardstone, perhaps Milan, about 1600 Materials: Heliotrope (bloodstone), jasper and silver gilt Measurements: 57.658 x 50.292 x 32.512 cm |
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Description: The bloodstone was probably fashioned into a bowl around 1600, perhaps in a workshop in Milan. The dolphin mount and the setting were created 200 years later by the British goldsmith Paul Storr. He was working for the wealthy and eccentric collector William Beckford who owned many exotic ‘Objects of Vertu’, as such settings of rich stones were known. The bowl appears in a painting by W. Maddox of William Beckford’s favourite objects in his house in Bath. It therefore post dates the collector’s move from his extraordinary Gothic abbey at Fonthill. Inscriptions / Translations: Hall mark:London 1824. Makers mark: P S.
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