A George II silver soup-tureen and cover

MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE, LONDON, 1750

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A George II silver soup-tureen and cover
Maker's mark of Paul de Lamerie, London, 1750
Shaped oval, of bomb form, on four scroll feet terminating in cast and chased goat's head, with everted ovolo rim with scrolls at intervals, the bracket handles rising from applied panels with cast and chased lion's masks, shells, scrolls and foliage, the detachable broadly fluted cover with ovolo and rosette border and chased inner band of ovolo, the centre chased and engraved with scrolls, shells, and scalework and with applied foliage and twisted branch and flower finial, with a plated liner, the body and cover engraved later with two crests beneath motto, marked on base of tureen and cover
17in. (44cm.)
119ozs. (3,719gr.)

Lot Essay

The form of the tureen, with its bacchic goat's mask feet and domed cover, with finely cast and chased openwork flower finial, is closely related to the form of the celebrated Anson tureens, made for Admiral Anson, Baron Anson (1697-1762), sold from the Dowty Collection, Christie's New York, 22 April 1993, lot 50. They also date from 1750 and are of similar weight. The details of the decoration differ slightly with more restrained chasing around the border of the cover and the absence of scrolls on the shoulders of the body. The later crests make it impossible to indentify the original owner of the tureen. However, the crests point to the tureen having been in the possession of the Meade Waldo family of Stonewall Park and Hever Castle, Kent. The family took the additional name of Waldo in 1830, when Edmund Wakefield Meade (1792-1858) succeeded to the estates of his cousin, Jane Waldo. The family were clients of de Lamerie as demonstrated by a salver of 1743, sold at Christie's London, 15 November 1933, which was engraved with the Waldo arms impaling those of Wakefield.

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