European Furniture, Silver, & Ceramics
European Furniture, Silver, & Ceramics
Property from a Park Avenue Private Collection
A George III Silver Soup Tureen and Cover, Thomas Heming, London, 1767
Lot Closed
April 19, 06:47 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Park Avenue Private Collection
A George III Silver Soup Tureen and Cover, Thomas Heming, London, 1767
bombé oval body with scroll handles and on four scroll feet, engraved on both sides with contemporary arms in rococo cartouches, the cover chased with spreading lobes and flutes, finial formed as an heraldic lion passant standing on a leaf spray
marked on body and cover, scratch weight on base 82=3
81 oz
2519.1 g
length 15 ¼ in.
38.7 cm
Willson, July 1963
The arms are those of Bryan impaling de Rutant for George Bryan of Jenkinstown, Co. Kilkenny and his wife Louisa Comtesse de Rutant daughter of the Count de Rutant of Lorraine whom he married in 1794; born in 1770, died in 1843.