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Description: | -Heavily carved mahogany and rosewood Regency furniture made by Banting, France and Co, royal furniture makers to the Prince Regent and to William IV.;The outstanding silver collection includes a pair of silver wine coolers by Philip Rollos, 1710; a silver wine cistern by Robert Cooper, 1680; Twelve silver candelabra by Simon le Sage commissioned by the 2nd Earl of Bristol for his embassy to Madrid (1758-61) bearing the crest of George II;
Ambassadorial service by Kandler.
Shoal of silver fishes collected by Geraldine, Marchioness of Bristol;The sculpture at Ickwork includes 'Boy and dolphin' by Nollekins and Flaxman's 'Fury of Athamas
- | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | The Dairy House
Ickworth
Bury St Edmunds Suffolk United Kingdom,
IP29 5QE | FAX: | 01284 735270 | Telephone: | 01284 735251 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6242 | Go to resource |
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