A GEORGE IV SILVER SOUP TUREEN AND COVER

MARK OF JOSEPH CRADOCK AND WILLIAM K. REID, LONDON, 1821

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A GEORGE IV SILVER SOUP TUREEN AND COVER
Mark of Joseph Cradock and William K. Reid, London, 1821
Shaped oval on four cast leafy feet, the fluted body with two handles formed as branches with oak leaf and acorn joins, with gadrooned rim, the comforming domed cover surmounted by a similar oak leaf and acorn handle, one side of body and both sides of cover engraved with a crest, with plain oval liner with two gadrooned tab handles, marked under base, cover, on handle and both nuts, the liner apparently unmarked
17in. (43.2cm.) long over handles; 200oz. (6241gr.)

Lot Essay

The design of this soup tureen is most closely associated with the Duchess of St. Albans, one of the Regency era's most extravagant patrons. She commissioned a vast silver service circa 1817-20 from the Royal goldsmiths, Rundell, Bridge and Rundell. The design drawing, attributed to Edward Hodges Bailey, who worked for Rundell, Bridge and Rundell from 1815 to 1833, is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and is discussed in Charles Oman's "A Problem of Artistic Responsibility: The Firm of Rundell, Bridge and Rundell," Apollo, March 1966, pp. 174-83.

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