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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 30, 2020 | Christie's | London | Classic Art Evening Sale: Antiquity to 20th Century | 42 | $****** - ****** | A PAIR OF GEORGE II SAUCEBOATS, STANDS AND LADLES |
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29.5 cm (11.63 in)
Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Earl of Malton and 1st Marquess of Rockingham (1693-1750) of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, by descent to his son,
Charles, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730-1782) of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, by descent to his nephew,
William, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (1748-1833) of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, by descent to,
William, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam (1910-1948) of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire,
Earl Fitzwilliam's Wentworth Estates Company; Christie's London, 9 June 1948, lots 81 and 82, part.
Sigmund J. Katz (1897-1958) and his wife Jesse Wild Katz (1901-1988), New Orleans, porcelain collectors and museum benefactors.
The Gift of Mrs S. J. Katz to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1969 and 1970.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, deaccessioned in February 2002, when acquired by the Whiteley Trust.
Austin, Texas, University Art Museum, One Hundred Years of English Silver, 1660-1760, 1969, no. 83, one sauceboat and stand.
New York, Frick Collection, English Silver, 1978, no. 14, one sauceboat, stand and ladle.
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth's England, 1984, no. G19, one stand.
Toronto, George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, A Taste of Elegance, 1986, p. 12.
The Victoria and Albert Museum, until 2020.
Signed Copy of the Accounts of the first Marquess's Executors, circa 1750, Northamptonshire Public Record Office, Fitzwilliam Muniments, Miscellaneous Volume 82, twelve sauceboats and four stands listed at Wentworth House.
Inventory of the late 2nd Marquess of Rockingham's House, Grosvenor Square, 1782, Sheffield Public Record Office, Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments, Mss. A1229, p. 15, twelve sauceboats and four stands.
A. Grimwade, Rococo Silver, 1727-1755, London, 1974, fig. 32B.
A. Gruber, Silverware, New York, 1982, fig. 207.
M. Clayton, Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver, Oxford, 1985, p. 139.
M. Snodin ed., Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth's England, London, 1984, p. 115.
E. Adams, Chelsea Porcelain, London, 1987, fig. 7.
B. Carver Wees, English, Irish and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, New York, 1997, p. 167.
E. Alcorn, English Silver in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Silver from 1697 including Irish and Scottish Silver, Boston, 2000, pp. 160-163,no. 96, part.
C Hartop, The Huguenot Legacy English Silver 1680 1760, London, 2006, pp. 216-218.
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
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.
