Magdalen Feline | |
Death Date: | 1796 |
Nationality: | English |
Occupation: | Silversmith |
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]