ID 377787
Lot 42 | A PAIR OF GEORGE II SAUCEBOATS, STANDS AND LADLES
Estimate value
£ 70 000 – 100 000
THE STANDS WITH MARK OF NICHOLAS SPRIMONT, LONDON, 1746, THE SAUCEBOATS AND LADLES UNMARKED, ATTRIBUTED TO NICHOLAS SPRIMONT, CIRCA 1745
The sauceboats and stands cast and chased with bands of rocaille and crustacea alternating with plain flutes, the sauceboats on shaped oval foot, with applied serpent scroll handles, the ladles with shaped handles with shell terminals, the sauceboats each engraved inside the lip with a coat-of-arms within the motto of the Order of the Bath and within drapery mantling and with earl's coronet above, the stands each engraved with a crest within ribbon-tied foliage fronds and with earl's coronet above, marked underneath the stands
11 5/8 in. (29.5 cm.) long
85 oz. 11 dwt. (2,662 gr.)
The arms on the sauceboats are those of Watson quartering Wentworth impaling Finch for Thomas Watson-Wentworth, as 1st Earl of Malton, K.B. (1693-1750) and his wife Lady Mary Finch (1701-1761), daughter of Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham (1647-1729), whom he married in 1716. The stands are engraved with the crest of Watson also for Thomas Watson-Wentworth, as 1st Marquess of Rockingham, following his elevation in 1746.
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