Three sauce ladles
Category
Silver
Date
1764 - 1765 (probably)
Materials
Silver
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Saltram, Devon
NT 872312.2
Summary
Three Old English pattern sauce ladles with oval bowls, probably sterling silver, maker's mark illegible, probably London 1764/5. Heraldry: The front of the terminal of each ladle is engraved with the Parker crest of an erect arm, the hand clasping a stag's antler underneath a baron's coronet for John Parker, 1st Lord Boringdon (1734/5-1788).
Full description
For more information on the complete service of spoons and forks see the master entry. These sauce ladles are the survivors of a set of four recorded in the 1886 Saltram plate list (NT, Saltram). Therein they were described as 'plain' and were listed after the set of '4 Sauce Boats plain' which are those of 1763/4 by Albartus Schurman still in the collection (NT 872315). In addition, in 1886, there were '2 Sauce Boats. chased' with accompanying chased ladles. These were by Paul de Lamerie, 1740, the ladles 1742, and were included in the Christie's sale of the late 4th Earl of Morley's silver, 19th January 1956 (lot 162). They are likely to have been commissioned by the 1st Lord Boringdon's parents at the time of their improvements to the house at Saltram. The plain set of sauce boats and ladles must have been supplied around the time of Lord Boringdon's first marriage to Frances Hort in 1764 and almost certainly came from the major London retailer, John Parker (no relation) and Edward Wakelin. Sadly the ledger likely to have covered the purchase of them, probably at the same time as six salts (NT 872307) is missing.[1] They formed part of the fashionable new dinner service assembled by the 1st Lord Boringdon and supplied between 1755 and the 1770s by George Wickes and Samuel Netherton and their successors in the business, Parker and Wakelin. NOTES [1] Garrards, the ultimate owners of the business, deposited the ledgers in the National Art Library at the V & A. The missing ledger covered the period from around 1760 to 1765.
Provenance
John Parker (later 1st Lord Boringdon, 1735-88), probably from Parker and Wakelin in 1764; by descent to Edmund, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951); accepted in lieu of Estate Duty by HM Treasury and transferred to the National Trust in 1957.
Credit line
Saltram, the Morley Collection (National Trust)