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 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. 1 2 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. ↑ Country Life. 1921. pp. 441–.
  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. ↑ "Mace of the House of Representatives". Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  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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