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Sauce Tureen

1776-1777 (made)
Artist/Maker
Matthew Boulton (maker)
Place of origin
Birmingham (made)

Silver, oval bowl with a ribbon-tied reeded border, on pedestal foot with two looped handles; one of a set of four sauce tureens.


Object details

Categories
Tableware & Cutlery
Metalwork
Object type
Sauce tureen
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Tureen
  • Lid
Materials and techniques
Silver
Silver
Casting
Chasing
Raising
Brief description
Silver, Birmingham, 1776-7, makers' mark of Matthew Boulton and John Fothergill

for a tureen; Silver, English
Physical description
Silver, oval bowl with a ribbon-tied reeded border, on pedestal foot with two looped handles; one of a set of four sauce tureens.
Dimensions
  • Height: 13cm
  • Width: 25cm
  • Depth: 11.5cm
  • Weight: 742.3g (weight is lid and bowl combined.) (Note: Dimensions taken from register.)
Gallery label
47. SAUCE TUREEN Birmingham, 1776-7 Mark of Matthew Boulton and John Fothergill With a combination of manufacturing skill, marketing talent, ingenuity and ambition Matthew Boulton led the provincial silversmiths' challenge to London manufacturers. Made using traditional methods of raising, chasing and casting, and in an assured neo-classical style, this tureen is the finest quality. Marmaduke Longdale Horn Bequest Circ. 513 and A-1953(1996-2000)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Marmaduke Langdale Horn
Bibliographic references
  • Turner, Eric. An introduction to English silver from 1660. London: HMSO, 1985.
  • British Design 1790-1990, pamphlet to accompany the exhibition held at the South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, California, 9 - 28 October 1990. ?London: ?Victoria and Albert Museum, 1990.
  • Rowe, Robert. Adam Silver: 1765-1795. London: Faber and Faber, 1965.
  • Ransome-Wallis, R. Matthew Boulton and the Toymakers: Silver from the Birmingham Assay Office. Catalogue of an exhibition at Goldsmiths' Hall, London, 15 - 26 November, 1982. London: Goldsmiths' Hall, 1982.
  • Delieb, Eric and M. Roberts, The Great Silver Manufactory: Matthew Boulton & the Birmingham Silversmiths 1760-1790, London: Studio Vista, 1971.
  • Goodison, Nicholas. Ormolu: The Work of Matthew Boulton. London: Phaidon, 1974.
Collection
Metalwork Collection
Accession number
CIRC.513-1953

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Record createdSeptember 10, 2004
Record URL
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