Each campana form on a circular fluted base, the lower body chased with foliage and flowers, with reeded loop handles issuing from bearded masks, engraved on both sides with a coat-of-arms under a foliate mantle, applied above with scrolling grapevine, egg-and-dart rim and a beaded border, conforming detachable collars and covers with crest finial, interiors with detachable liners,one body marked on base rim for Benjamin Smith II and James Smith III, London, 1811, one finial marked for William Bateman, London, 1836, the other body and finial, both covers, collars and supports, marked for Benjamin Smith II, London, 1818, dot numbered 1, 2
15³⁄₄ in. (40 cm.) high
300 oz. 6 dwt. (9,339 gr.)

Anonymous Sale; Leslie Hindman, Chicago, 27 April 1986, lot 374.

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The arms are those of Goldsmid with the cadency mark of a crescent for a second son, almost certainly for Alexander Goldsmid (1770-1843) of Finsbury Square, London and Ticehurst, Sussex, second son of Asher Goldsmid (d.1822) and brother of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, later 1st Bt. (1778-1859). The Anglo-Jewish Goldsmid family were bankers and philanthropists, descended from Aaron Goldsmid (d.1782), a Dutch merchant who came to in England in the 1760s. Alexander’s brother Isaac, a financier and campaigner for Jewish emancipation, was the first Jewish baronet.

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Finials slightly later and marked for William William Bateman, London, 1836 and with additional marks on the flat bases of the finials, interior supports lacking date mark and leopard head. Collars and covers with maker's mark, lion passant and date letter only. No. 1: bend to cover flange, but not split, light wear to high spots of decoration, one leaf to grapevine band missing, faint bruise to lower body at widest point at one side, same side with small shallow crease above right of arms near handle, small loss to tendril of grapevine. The body fully marked on base rim, Benjamin and James Smith, 1811; the collar with mark for Benjamin Smith and lion passant mark, 1818; the cover with mark for Benjamin Smith and lion passant mark, 1818; the finial with mark for William Bateman, London, 1836 (duty and lion passant mark on flat base; maker's mark, lion passant and date letter on bundle). No. 2: also with bend to flange of cover, and flange of collar a little out of round, does not fit perfectly flush, body with slight wear to high spots and a shallow bruise to left hand side of arms and to lower body at widest point near one handle, slight separation where top of stem joins base and interior of base with shallow solid projection but does not correspond to shape of foot below. The body fully marked on side right of handle for Benjamin Smith, 1818; the collar and cover marked for Benjamin Smith and lion passant mark, 1818; the internal support marked for Benjamin Smith, with duty mark, lacking date letter; the finial marked for Benjamin Smith and lion passant and duty marks on flat base, the bundle marked for William Bateman and lion passant mark, 1836. Both with some scratching to underside of covers around perimeter of flange and sold extra solder under finials Overall good condition.

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