Tureen
Frederick Kandler (d.1778)
Category
Silver
Date
1755 - 1756
Materials
Silver
Measurements
24 x 41 x 23 cm
Place of origin
London
Collection
Coughton Court, Warwickshire
NT 1961499.2
Summary
One of a pair of oval tureens, sterling silver, by Frederick Kandler, London, 1755/6. The shaped oval bombé base of the tureen is chased with elaborate, symmetrically arranged lobing interspersed with stems rising to vine leaves. Central asymmetrical rococo cartouches on both sides with C-scrolls, shellwork and foliage contain engraved coats of arms. The tureen base rests on four cast and applied foliate scroll feet and has two foliate scroll and shell open handles. The concave neck is plain and polished and rises to a shaped gadrooned lip. The domed cover of the tureen conforms to the base and has a flat rim with chased curved channels and four oval floral paterae, placed centrally on the sides and the ends. Above the paterae on the sides are chased scallop shells within C-scrolls whilst at the ends there are convex lobed palmettes which initiate bands of graduated buds and leaves set within matted pulvinate bands. They rise up the symmetrically lobed dome which is shouldered and round headed and has, at its apex, a cast handle in the form of an eagle with wings outstretched and clasping in its beak the neck of a grouse, its talons on a hare. This group rests on vegetables including an artichoke. Heraldry: The cartouches on both sides of the tureen are engraved with the arms of Throckmorton quartering Yate overlaid with an inescutcheon of the Hand of Ulster (symbol of a baronetcy) and impaled with the arms of Collingwood, for Sir Robert Throckmorton, 4th Baronet (1702-91) and his second wife, Catherine Collingwood (c.1705-61, m. 1738). Hallmarks: Fully marked on the underside of the base and the underside of the rim of the cover with date letter ‘u’, lion passant, maker’s mark ‘FK’ in italics beneath a fleur-de-lis (Arthur Grimwade, London Goldsmiths 1697-1837 (1990), no. 691) and leopard’s head crowned. Scratchweight: ‘103’ [troy ounces].
Full description
For further detail see the master object entry.
Provenance
Commissioned by Sir Robert Throckmorton, 4th Bt (1702-91); by descent to Sir Robert Throckmorton, 11th Bt (1908-89) at Buckland House, Berkshire (up to 1910) and then at Coughton Court; sold by him at Christie’s, 25 July 1934, lot 69; acquired by H.R.H. the Duke of Kent (1902-42); H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent (1906-68); sold by her at Christie’s, 13 March 1947; S. J. Phillips Ltd, London; sold by them 23 February 1948 to a Swedish collector from whose successors they were purchased by the National Trust 25 February, 2022 with the support of a private donor and National Trust gifts and bequests.
Credit line
Coughton Court, the Throckmorton Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Frederick Kandler (d.1778), goldsmith