A pair of George III silver soup tureens and covers, John Romer, London, 1769

the oval bodies engraved on both sides with contemporary armorials within drapery cartouches and below applied bands of trailing leafage, gadroon lips and handles, the covers engraved on either side with a crest within drapery cartouches, pomegranate finials, the undersides numbered 1 and 2 and engraved respectively with scratch weights '125''10 and '127''17,' the covers similarly numbered, contemporary Sheffield plate liners

Sir John Frecheville Ramsden, 6^thBt (1877-1958), inherited in 1917 from his second cousin, 5th and last Baron Muncaster (1834-1917), sold Christie’s, London, 1 June 1932, lot 73

The Muncaster Castle Collection, The property of Patrick and Phyllida Gordon-Duff-Pennington, sold Sotheby’s, London, 9 November 1995, lot 243

nice surface, good engraving, good marks and overall condition. They are unusual in having the original liners (Sheffield plate, not silver), the only flaw being that one of the small finger grips on one of the liners is missing
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The arms are those of Weddell impaling Ramsden for William Weddell (1736-1792) MP of Newby, North Yorkshire, who married in 1771 Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Ramsden, 3^rdBt.

William Weddell, one of England’s celebrated dilettanti collectors was responsible for remodelling Newby Hall and is known to have patronised during the 1760s and 1770s the architects John Carr, William Chambers and James Stuart as well as Robert Adam.

‘On Thursday last was married, at Brotherton Church, William Weddell, of Newby, Esq; Member of Parliament for Hull, to Miss Ramsden, Daughter of the late Sir John Ramsden, of Byram, Bart’ (The St. James’s Chronicle, Or, British Evening-Post, London,  19-21 February 1771, p. 4d). ‘Yesterday [7 March 1771] William Weddell, Esq, Member for Kingston upon Hull, and his new-married lady, were introduced to their Majesties at St. James’s’ (The General Evening Post, London, 7-9 March 1771, p. 1a).