FOUR GEORGE III SILVER-GILT SAUCE-BOATS

TWO MAKER'S MARK I.K, PROBABLY FOR JOHN KING, LONDON, 1767, TWO APPARENTLY UNMARKED

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FOUR GEORGE III SILVER-GILT SAUCE-BOATS
TWO MAKER'S MARK I.K, PROBABLY FOR JOHN KING, LONDON, 1767, TWO APPARENTLY UNMARKED
Each boat-shaped on four shell and scroll feet, with wavy gadrooned border and foliate side handles, engraved with a coat of-arms, two marked underneath
9½ in. 24.5 cm. wide
64 oz. 12 dwt. (2,009 gr.)
The arms are those of Turton quartering Hickman with another in pretence for John Turton (1735-1806).

Provenance

Antenor Patiño Collection.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Geneva, 13 November 1989, lot 126.

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Lot Essay

John Turton (1735-1806) was the only son of Dr. John Turton M.D. by his wife Dorothy, only surviving child of Gregory Hickman. Having graduated from Oxford he spent a short time in Leyden and then settled in London where he soon built up a large practice. He was appointed Physician to the Queen's Household in 1771, Physician in Ordinary to the Queen in 1782 and in 1797 Physician in Ordinary to King George III of Great Britain and Ireland and the Prince of Wales.

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