Sauce Tureen
1776-1777 (made)
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Traditionally, metal goods were produced in a network of small, complementary workshops. An object might pass through several of these before it was finished. From the mid-eighteenth century this changed, as entrepreneurs created large factories where all the skills could be contained under one roof. Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) claimed that his Soho factory in Birmingham had: `seven or eight hundred persons employ'd in almost all those Arts that are applicable to the manufacturing of all the metals... I have almost every machine that is applicable to those Arts. I have two Water mills employed in rolling, polishing, grinding and turning various sorts of laths.' (letter to James Adam 1 Oct. 1770)
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Silver, raised, chased with cast and applied decoration. |
| Brief description | Sauce tureen, silver, Birmingham hallmarks for 1776-77, mark of Matthew Boulton and John Fothergill. |
| Physical description | One of a pair of sauce boats and covers, each in the form of an oval two-handled vase with fluted and gadrooned body, the lip chased with floral scrolls, loop handles forked at the junction with the lip, spreading foot with border chased with a flower and ribbon with low domed matching cover surmounted by a knob finial. The full sets of hallmarks are on the lip inside the lid. The foot of each tureen carries the marks for Matthew Boulton and James Fothergill. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Marmaduke Langdale Horn |
| Object history | Bequest - Marmaduke Langdale Horn Michaels, Stoke Charity, Hants., per Collyer, Bristow & Co., 4 Bedford Row Acquisition RF: 53 / 2778 |
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| Summary | Traditionally, metal goods were produced in a network of small, complementary workshops. An object might pass through several of these before it was finished. From the mid-eighteenth century this changed, as entrepreneurs created large factories where all the skills could be contained under one roof. Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) claimed that his Soho factory in Birmingham had: `seven or eight hundred persons employ'd in almost all those Arts that are applicable to the manufacturing of all the metals... I have almost every machine that is applicable to those Arts. I have two Water mills employed in rolling, polishing, grinding and turning various sorts of laths.' (letter to James Adam 1 Oct. 1770) |
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| Accession number | CIRC.511-1953 |
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| Record created | September 10, 2004 |
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