Π90. Pair of Lidded Tureens, Liners,
and Stands
Paris, 1744-1750
By Thomas Germain
Silver
Marked variously on the tureens, liners,
lids, and stands with a crowned D (the war
dens mark used between July 6,1744, and
November 27,1745); a crowned / (the war
den's mark used between July 18,1749, and
July 15,1750); a crowned (the warden's
mark used between July 15, 1750, and
January 22,1751); an indistinct mark, pos
sibly a crowned A (the charge mark used
between October 4,1738, and October 13,
1744, under the firmier Louis Robin); a
crowned A (the charge mark used between
October 13, 1744, and October 10,1750,
under the firmier Antoine Leschaudel);
a hen's head (the discharge mark used on
small silver objects between October 10,
1750, and October 13, 1756, under the
firmier Julien Berthe); a boar's head (the
discharge mark used on large silver objects
between October 10, 1750, and October 13,
1756); and a laurel leaf (the countermark
used between October 13, 1756, and
November 22,1762, under the firmier Eloy
Brichard); and several obliterated marks.
One tureen, liner, lid, and stand engraved
with DUN^0 3; the other with DUN^0 4.
Stands scratched with various dealers'
marks of twentieth-century date. Originally
engraved with an archbishop's coat of arms
surrounded by the collar and cross of the
Order of Christ, now partly erased and
replaced with the arms of Robert John
Smith, 2nd Lord Carrington.Tureens: Height: 11 MO in. (30 cm); Width:
ι ft. i^34 in. (34.9 cm); Depth: 11 V% in.
(28.2 cm); Stands: Height: i^5 /s in. (4.2 cm);
Width: ι ft. 6V16 in. (46.2 cm); Depth:
ι ft. 6V16 in. (47.2 cm)
Accession number 82 .DG.13.1-.2
PROVENANCE
(?) Archbishop Dom Gaspar de Bragan$a
(1716-1789, archbishop of Braga 1757),
Braga, Portugal; Robert John Smith, 2nd
Lord Carrington (succeeded to the title in
1838), England; [S.J. Phillips, London,
1920s or 1930s]; Mr. and Mrs. Meyer
Sassoon, Pope's Manor, Berkshire, by the
1930s; [S.J. Phillips, London]; [Jacques
Helft, Paris]; José and Vera Espirito Santo,
Paris, by 1954 (sold, Christie's, Geneva,April 27,1976, lot 446); private collection,
Geneva, 1976.
EXHIBITIONS
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Les Tresors
de Torfevrerie du Portugal, November 1954-
January 1955, no. 455, illus.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Thomas Milnes-Gaskell, "Thomas Ger
main," Christies Review of the Season 197$
(London and New York, 1976), pp. 219-221,
illus.; Wilson, "Acquisitions 1982," no. 7,
pp. 39-45, illus.; Storia degli Argenti,
Kirsten Aschengreen-Piacenti, ed. (Novara,
1987), p. 129, illus.; Handbook 1991, p. 173,
illus. (one).114 FRENCH SILVER
190