Lot 177
  • 177

A Scottish Silver Soup Tureen and Pair of matching Sauce Tureens, Alex Edmonston, Edinburgh, 1823

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • marked on tureens, covers, finials and liners and with retailer's mark AM, sauce tureens, covers and liners dot numbered.  Together with a Scottish silver ladle, marked back of handle, Patrick Robertson, Edinburgh, 1764

  • length of soup tureen over handles 15 5/8
  • 39.7cm
tureens of bombĂ© oval form with shaped gadroon rims, the loop handles centered by shells and with leaf terminals, raised on four scroll supports headed by lobes and scrolls, each engraved on one side with contemporary arms, the conforming domed covers crested and with fully modeled leafy artichoke finials, sauce tureens with removable liners; the ladle with twisted handle, terminal crested and with monogram MMD

Provenance

The arms are those of Douglas

Condition

laquered, one sauce tureen with two feet very slightly pushed up into base, good condition overall
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Catalogue Note

The arms are those of Douglas.