Tablespoon
Category
Silver
Date
1733
Materials
Silver
Measurements
40 mm (Width); 210 mm (Length)
Place of origin
The Hague
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436551.13
Summary
One of sixteen table spoons, silver-gilt, maker's mark GB beneath a coronet (unidentified), The Hague, 1733. The spoon is of the Hanoverian pattern with a single drop to the base of the egg-shaped bowl and a plain, tapered stem with upturned terminal. The gilding is later, probably of the early 19th century. Heraldry: The spoon is engraved on the reverse of the terminal with a lozenge containing the arms of Bentinck impaling Temple, within a knotted and tasselled cord surround and beneath an earl's coronet. These are the arms of Jane Martha Temple, Countess of Portland (1672-1751), widow of William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland (1649-1709) and ancestress of Sophia Hume, Lady Brownlow (1788-1814). Hallmarks: The reverse of the stem of the spoon is marked with the lion rampant beneath a coronet indicating silver of 87.5% purity, the date letter 'L' beneath a coronet for 1733, The Hague city mark of a stork with an eel in its mouth beneath a coronet, and the unidentified maker's 'GB' beneath a coronet.
Full description
For further information see the master object entry.
Provenance
Jane Martha Temple, Countess of Portland (1672-1751); her daughter Lady Elizabeth Egerton (d. 1765); her son John Egerton, Bishop of Durham (1721-87); his daughter Amelia Egerton, Lady Hume (1751-1809); her daughter Sophia Hume, Lady Brownlow (1788-1814); by descent to the 7th Lord Brownlow (1936-2021); purchased from him by the National Trust with grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund in January 1984.
Credit line
Belton House, the Brownlow Collection (National Trust)