A GEORGE II SILVER SOUP-TUREEN AND COVER

A GEORGE II SILVER SOUP-TUREEN AND COVER
MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE, LONDON, 1747
Oval and on four cast lion capped lion's paw and ball feet, the sides cast and chased with foliage and flower swags and with a gadrooned border, with two scroll handles, the detachable cover similarly cast with floral swags and the mask of the goddess Diana, the cast finial formed as a pelican in her piety, the body applied twice with a cast shell scroll and foliage cartouche with cast crest above, later engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked under base and on cover bezel, the base further engraved with a scratchweight '178=15'
17 in. (43.2 cm.) wide
175 oz. 6 dwt. (5,453 gr.)
The cast crest is that of Jodrell almost certainly for Gilbert Jodrell (c.1714-1772), the second son of Paul Jodrell Esq., of Duffield, Derbyshire. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in February 1730 where his father was Master of the Bench. He married Anne, daughter of Samuel Vanderplank, as his second wife on 28 June 1747.