A DOCUMENTED QUEEN ANNE BRASS AND FRUITWOOD BED WARMING PAN

A DOCUMENTED QUEEN ANNE BRASS AND FRUITWOOD BED WARMING PAN

BY CHARLES APPLEBEE, C.1710

the domed cover with nurled edge and engraved with a large central stylised flower within a border of foliate scrolls, with decorative piercings, inset into an iron pan with nurled brass rim, the turned and tapering handle terminating in an acorn finial, stamped maker's mark

30cm diameter

Catalogue Note

Charles Applebee comes from a family of three generations of braziers. The first such member appears to have been John Applebee, to whom his son Charles was apprenticed in 1683. His son Charles, in turn, was apprenticed to him in 1733. A trade card of Charles Applebee gives his address as 'at the Wheatsheaf, Ludgate Hill'. The style and form of this pan, with an inset lid and turned wooden handle, suggests that it was made by Charles, son of John, sometime in the early 18th century.

Literature

Illustrated in R. Butler, 'A Study Collection of Marked Domestic Brass and Other Base Metalware c. 1600 - c. 1900' (September 2001), p. 7. See also Journal of the 'Antique Metalware Society', Vol. 26. 2021, Charles Applebee 'Revisited: Evidence for a Dynasty of London Braziers', p.32-41, including a discussion and illustration of this Lot. A very similar warming pan, by the same maker is illustrated P. Hornsby, 'Collecting Antique Copper & Brass' (1989), p. 112, fig. 237.