Soup tureen

Date1770-1800

MediumPewter

DimensionsOH: 7 5/8"; OL: 16"; OW: 9 1/2"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1958-561,A&B

DescriptionTureen and cover: oval; double-domed cover of oval plan with vertically-placed open scroll handle in center within an oval reserve with gadrooned border, convex sides in 2 stages, and flanged rim with gadrooned edge; body of oval plan with multiple moldings at rim above short contracted neck on convex sides to basically flat base; opposed open scroll handles at ends below rim; body supported on 4 short legs with collared knees ending in ball and claw feet. Engraved crest on cover and coat of arms on face of body.
Label TextSoup tureens of this general pattern remained popular well into the nineteenth century. Those supplied by Thomas Alderson for the coronation banquet of George IV in 1821 are very similar to this example. The beading around the central handle and the rim of the cover, as well as style of the armorial engraving, are specific concessions to early neoclassic taste, and they suggest a late-eighteenth-century date.
InscribedArms, motto, and crest of the Protheroe family engraved on one side of body. Crest repeated on one side of cover.
MarkingsNone
ProvenanceVendor: A.V. Sutherland-Graeme, London.