Sauce boat
Walter Brind
Caption
A pair of sauce boats like this would have sat on the dining table. Showing the arms of the Yorke and Cust family, they were probably acquired to celebrate the marriage
Summary
Jug; Sauce boat. One of a pair of George III large sauce boats, each on three lion's mask-and-paw feet, with shaped, lobed bodies and rising scroll handles terminating in eagle's heads, engraved c.1775 with the arms of Yorke impaling Cust, within floral wreaths. Walter Brind, 1770.
Provenance
Given by Phillip Yorke III (1905-1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973
Makers and roles
Walter Brind, silversmith