Soup ladle
Category
Silver
Date
c. 1756
Materials
Silver
Measurements
32.4 cm (length); 9.4 cm (width of bowl)
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 852078.3
Summary
One of a pair of soup ladles, silver, Turin, circa 1756, made for use with a pair of round tureens, also Turin circa 1756. (NT 852128). These ladles are copies of those of 1752/3 by Frederick Kandler (NT 852078.1-2). The ladle has a deep, almost hemispherical raised bowl soldered to the stem which is cast and chased on both sides with trailing convolvulus, shells, scrollwork and reeding on matted grounds. Beneath the junction of the stem with the bowl is a cast and applied shell in a scrollwork cartouche. It and its pair are near identical to the pair made for the Kandler tureens in 1752/3 (NT 852078.1-2), the only significant difference being the execution of some small, subsidiary leaves on the fronts of the terminals in cast-work rather than chasing and the slightly shorter length of the handles. Heraldry: The ladle is engraved on the underside of the upper part of the stem with the Hervey crest beneath an earl’s coronet. The engraved crest and coronet are of a high quality but are marked out as being done by an Italian rather than an English hand by the angularity of the stems to the balls of the coronet.
Full description
For further detail see the master object entry.
Provenance
George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol (1721-75); by descent to the 4th Marquess of Bristol (1863-1951); accepted by the Treasury in lieu of death duties in 1956 and transferred to the National Trust.
Credit line
Ickworth, the Bristol Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Underside of the stem: Hallmark: the Turin mint mark of the Savoy cross surmounted by another cross couped in a shield beneath a crown enclosing a trefoil (Augusto Bargoni, ‘Argenti’ in volume 3 of Vittorio Viale (ed.), Mostra del Barocco Piemontese, 3 vols, Turin, 1963, p. 15, no. 79, ill.). Underside of stem: Scratchweight: ‘oz d [/] 14∙8 (partly crossed through) 14=2’.