Sauce Boat
1726-1727 (made)
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An oval silver double lipped sauce boat with undulating rim on spreading stepped foot with two double scroll handles the spout with baluster drop with the sterling maker's mark for Anne Tanqueray AT beneath the sun and above.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | It is likely that the vessel was made by a journeyman in Mrs Tanqueray's employment, although the outstanding quality indicates the high standards associated with the Willaume-Tanqueray family goldsmiths |
| Brief description | A George II double-lipped silver sauce boat with maker's mark of Anne Tanqueray, London, 1726-7 |
| Physical description | An oval silver double lipped sauce boat with undulating rim on spreading stepped foot with two double scroll handles the spout with baluster drop with the sterling maker's mark for Anne Tanqueray AT beneath the sun and above. |
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| Production type | Limited edition |
| Marks and inscriptions | Maker's mark for Anne Tanqueray; sterling standard lion passant; leopard's head; date letter M for 1726-7 (Sterling standard maker's mark) |
| Credit line | Acquired with a contribution from Koopman Rare Art and a legacy from the late Michael Grange. |
| Object history | This is one of a pair of sauce boats; the other is now in the Huguenot Museum, Rochester. The pair were sold at Christie's New York as part of the Devine Collection of Important English and Continental Silver 15 October 1985 lot 1204; Sotheby's London 9 May 1957 lot 138. |
| Historical context | The double-lipped sauceboat was a new form introduced by the Huguenot goldsmiths, perfectly suited for serving sophisticated sauces introduced by French cooks working in London. A selected of recipes for sauces were published by Vincent la Chapelle, Huguenot master cook, who was working in Mayfair, London, for Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield in the 1720s. La Chapelle’s The New Cook was published in London in 1733 |
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| Accession number | M.10-2019 |
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| Record created | December 14, 2018 |
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