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Lot Essay
The highlight of the May 1898 sale of 'Old English Silver plate' was 'A large Service of Plates and Dishes, &c. richly chased and weighing 10,000 ounces, formerly the Property of QUEEN ADELAIDE', including 168 dinner plates, 30 soup plates, a circular bread basket, four wine coolers, two pairs of soup tureens, six sauce tureens, and various meat and serving dishes, all variously engraved with either the cyphers of William IV and the Queen, or just that of Queen Adelaide.
The soup tureens, sold as lot 27, 'a circular soup-tureen, liner and cover, with oak-branch handles, on feet chased as terminal figures of horses and lions', the second and a further two described as 'a larger ditto', lot 28, 'The companion', lot 29, 'A Larger ditto, similar' and lot 30 'The companion' together weighted some 877 oz.
The companion to this tureen, perhaps missing its liner, as it weighed only 174 oz., was sold Sotheby's New York, 17 June 1981, lot 59 and is illustrated in V. Brett, The Sotheby's Directory of Silver 1600-1940, London, 1986, p. 260-261, fig. 1182.
The soup tureens, sold as lot 27, 'a circular soup-tureen, liner and cover, with oak-branch handles, on feet chased as terminal figures of horses and lions', the second and a further two described as 'a larger ditto', lot 28, 'The companion', lot 29, 'A Larger ditto, similar' and lot 30 'The companion' together weighted some 877 oz.
The companion to this tureen, perhaps missing its liner, as it weighed only 174 oz., was sold Sotheby's New York, 17 June 1981, lot 59 and is illustrated in V. Brett, The Sotheby's Directory of Silver 1600-1940, London, 1986, p. 260-261, fig. 1182.