Beschreibung:

A PAIR OF GEORGE III SOUP TUREENS, COVERS, LINERS AND STANDS MARK OF WILLIAM PITTS LONDON, 1782 AND 1783, THE LINERS WITH MARK OF WILLIAM EATON, LONDON, 1820 The boat-shaped partly fluted tureens on four foliage and scroll feet, and applied on centre with oval plaques figuring cherubs, with ram's mask handles and laurel leaves borders, pierced below the rim with a band of slats, the domed covers chased with rosettes and foliage, with detachable acanthus leaves terrace and reed-and-tie bud finials, the stands with acanthus leaf scroll handles and laurel borders, with plain liners, engraved with Royal coat-of-arms, marked on stands, tureens and liners, the stands further engraved numbers and scratchweights: No3 68=7 and No4 60=10 the stands 23 ½ in. (60 cm.) long; the tureens 15 ½ in. (39.5 cm. ) long 388 oz. 12 dwt. (12,087 gr.) Provenance Supplied by the Royal Goldsmiths Jefferys and Jones to John, 3rd Duke of Dorset (1745-1799) for his embassy to Paris in 1784, then by descent to his son, George, 4th Duke of Dorset (1793-1815), then by descent to his first cousin, Charles, 2nd Viscount Sackville and 5th Duke of Dorset (1767-1843), who would have commissioned the liners, then by descent to the second daughter of George, 4th Duke of Dorset, Lady Elizabeth Sackville-West (1795-1870), later Baroness Buckhurst, wife of George, 5th Earl De La Warr (1791-1869), who assumed her paternal name and arms by Royal License in addition to those of West in 1843, by descent to their fourth son, Mortimer, 1st Baron Sackville (1820-1888), then by descent The Trustees of the Knole Estates; Christie's London, 20 May 1987, lot 188. Rothschild collection.