Magdalen Feline

Magdalen Feline
Died1796
NationalityEnglish
OccupationSilversmith
small cyclindrical box engraved with a coat of arms on the top
Small silver box, 1771–1772

Magdalen Feline (sometimes Fellen or Pheline) (died 1796) was an English silversmith.

Feline was the widow of largeworker Edward Feline, and herself was classified as both a largeworker and a plateworker during her career. Her first mark was registered on 15 May 1753; a second mark followed on 18 January 1757. She gave an address of King Street in Covent Garden.[1] Among those for whom she worked during her career were George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington, and his heir and her husband, Lord and Lady Stamford.[2]

A box by Feline, made between 1771 and 1772, is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[3] The National Museum of Women in the Arts owns a George II lamp stand of 1751 and a George II kettle on lamp stand of 1756.[1] Feline also created the mace of the South Carolina House of Representatives, which dates to 1756 and is reputedly the only such pre-Revolutionary mace remaining in use in the United States.[4] Four other maces by her exist in England. [5] Also surviving is her will, dated 10 June 1796.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b Philippa Glanville; Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough; National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.) (1990). Women Silversmiths, 1685-1845: Works from the Collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Thames and Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-23578-2.
  2. ^ Tipping, H. Avray (9 April 1921). "The Second Earl of Warrington's silver plate, I". Country Life. 49 (1266): 441. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
  3. ^ "Magdalen Feline | Box | British, London". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  4. ^ South Carolina: A Guide to the Palmetto State. US History Publishers. pp. 220–. ISBN 978-1-60354-039-1.
  5. ^ Heisser, David C. R. (11 August 2022). "Mace of the House of Representatives". South Carolina Encyclopedia. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
  6. ^ "Catalogue description: Will of Magdalen Feline, Widow of Send , Surrey". 10 June 1796. Retrieved 8 March 2019 – via National Archive of the UK.


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