Four sugar ladles
Category
Silver
Date
1758 - 1759
Materials
Silver-gilt
Measurements
17.8 cm (Length)
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Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 852196
Summary
Four sugar ladles, sterling silver, gilded, marked for London, 1758/9. The raised bowls are almost hemispherical and are pierced in a foliate and floral symmetrical pattern. The tapering handles with rounded terminals are forged and are of the double-reeded Hanoverian pattern with additional shouldering at the junction with the bowl. Heraldry: Each of the ladles is engraved on the reverse of the terminal with the quartered arms of the Hanoverian monarchs (pre-1801) within the Garter and beneath an imperial crown. Hallmarks: The ladles are marked on the rear of their stems. All are faint and on none is the maker’s mark legible but three bear the date letter ‘C’ and the lion passant, and the leopard’s head can be made out on all four. Scratchweights: None. Actual weight: (combined) 223g, 7oz 3dwt
Full description
These ladles are much plainer than those Lord Bristol had already acquired in Turin, which makes their inclusion in his perquisite plate rather puzzling, unless he intended one or other of the sets to be used with porcelain sugar dishes (see cat. 59). James Rothwell, Decorative Arts Curator June 2021 [Adapted from James Rothwell, Silver for Entertaining: The Ickworth Collection, London 2017, cat. 76, p. 164]
Provenance
Jewel Office; allocated to George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol (1721-75) as Ambassador to Madrid 1758; discharged to Lord Bristol 9 April 1759; 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)