Stephen Smith
A Victorian Table Centrepiece
Stephen Smith
A Victorian Table Centrepiece
By Stephen Smith
London, 1884
13 3⁄4 in. (34.5 cm.) wide over the handles
34 oz. 15 dwt. (1,075 gr.)
Navette-shaped, on four foliate scroll feet and with reeded loop handles, the basket pierced with ogival arches and applied with laurel garlands, the rim chased with Vitruvian scrolls on matted ground, engraved inside with a crest and motto, marked underneath, with workshop number 8172
The crest and motto is that of Warre of Bindon House, Somerset, as borne by Henry Warre (1795-1876). It may be for one of his two sons, the elder the Reverend Francis Warre (1834-1917), Rector of Bemerton, Wiltshire and Prebendary of Old Sarum or for the Reverend Edmond Warre (1837-1920), Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, Head Master of Eton College from 1884 to 1905, and later Provost.
Identified as a very fine nineteenth-century London silversmith, he registered his mark in January 1865 with his workshop at 35 King Street, Covent Garden, London.
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