Lot 581: A GEORGE III SILVER SOUP TUREEN AND COVER, JOHN PARKER I & EDWARD WAKELIN, LONDON, 1765

A GEORGE III SILVER SOUP TUREEN AND COVER, JOHN PARKER I & EDWARD WAKELIN, LONDON, 1765 bombé oval with gadroon rims, engraved on one side with contemporary arms in rococo cartouche flanked by sprays of flowers and foliage, with rope-twist loop handles and raised on four spiralling supports headed by lobed cartouches and terminating in balls, the conforming domed cover with matching crest fully marked on cover, tureen with lion passant, date letter and leopard's head crowned, both engraved No. S, tureen with scratch weight 95=8 length over handles 15 7/8 in. 40.4cm 92oz 10dwt 2880g

Helen Clifford, Silver in London: The Parker and Wakelin Partnership 1760-1776, pp. 141-42, explores the patronage of the Milbanke family and the related families of the Noels and Lambs (later Viscounts Melbourne).

The arms are those of Milbanke, for Ralph Milbanke, 5th Baronet of Halnaby, Yorkshire, MP for Scarborough, who in 1748 married Elizabeth, daughter of John Hedworth, MP for Chester-le-Street.