STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics
STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics
TWO MATCHING GEORGIAN SILVER SMALL TUREENS AND COVERS, WILLIAM CRIPPS AND PARKER & WAKELIN, LONDON, 1757 AND 1770
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October 21, 03:32 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
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TWO MATCHING GEORGIAN SILVER SMALL TUREENS AND COVERS, WILLIAM CRIPPS AND PARKER & WAKELIN, LONDON, 1757 AND 1770
each raised on four rococo feet headed by two boars' heads and two rams' heads, the sides applied with swags of roses and various vegetables including asparagus, carrots, mushrooms, and artichokes, the cover applied with fowl and small game below a spread-winged eagle, fitted with silver liners, the Cripps example with bird crest at each end and twice on cover, the Parker & Wakelin example with lion and deer head crests on cover
both marked on bases and cover rims, and liners, the Cripps example dot numbered 4, the Parker & Wakelin example dot numbered 4 and engraved on base No. 3 and with scratch weight 102=7, the liners both with maker's mark WE of London, 1821
225 oz
6997.5 g
length over handles 12¾ in.
32.5 cm
In 1770, Parker & Wakelin made stands for a pair of soup tureens of this model by John Luff, 1743 for Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 3rd Bt. (see Helen Clifford, Silver in London: The Parker & Wakelin Partnership 1760-1776, 2004, fig. 129, pp. 162-63). Since this example is of the same date, it is likely that Parker & Wakelin used the Luff tureen as the model, and it may even have been supplied to the owner of the Luff tureens.