Sauce boat
Category
Silver
Date
1751
Materials
Silver
Measurements
82 x 120 x 65 mm
Place of origin
London
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Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 548437
Summary
Silver sauce boat or jug. Scrolled handle with engraved stylised acanthus leaves, shaped dog-nose rim, oval globular body, three cabriole legs with hoof feet. Impressed with London assay office, dated letter 'q' for 1751, obscure mark and partly obscure maker's mark 'C...'.
Provenance
An item from the Pamela Ward collection, left to the National Trust in the will of Miss Ward in 1994