MARK OF JOHN ROMER, LONDON, 1771, AFTER A DESIGN BY WILLIAM CHAMBERS

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER SOUP TUREENS AND COVERS
MARK OF JOHN ROMER, LONDON, 1771, AFTER A DESIGN BY WILLIAM CHAMBERS
Lobed bombé form on four claw and ball feet, the sides applied with berried laurel swags between drop-ring handles, the fluted and lobed domed covers with handles of spreading husks and foliage, with silver-plated liners, later engraved on both sides with a phoenix crest beneath an earl’s coronet, marked on undersides and cover rims
12 ¾ in. (32.4 cm.) long
195 oz. 2 dwt. (6,068 gr.) weighable silver

Provenance

A New York Private Collector; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 13-15 January 1955, lots 453-454.
Annie Laurie Crawford, later Aitken (1900-1984).

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Lot Essay

An almost identical tureen with later stand by Thomas Heming, engraved with the arms of Sir John Ramsden, 4th Baronet, is in the Sir Charles Jackson Collection, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, and illustrated in C Jackson, An Illustrated History of English Plate, London, 1967, vol. 2, pp. 819-820, and H. Young, "Sir William Chambers and John Yenn: Designs for Silver," The Burlington Magazine, January 1986, vol. 128, issue 994, pp. 34-35, fig. 44.

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