A George III sterling silver sauce tureen, London 1788 by John Wakelin & William Taylor (reg. 25 Sep 1776)

Of navette form with reeded rim and moulded twin handles, raised upon an oval pedestal foot with cavetto edge and reeded border. The conforming lid with gently domed centre surmounted by a ball finial, cut with a ladle aperture. The body engraved with impaled and quartered coat of arms within a shield cartouche surmounted by a crest of issuing from a mural coronet and crane’s head erased erm charged with an escallop, all reserved within an engraved oval decorative band. The lid engraved with the same crest. Fully marked underneath and part-marked to lid flange, also with scratch weight 20:17 and numeral 3, the lid also with numeral 3 and three alignment dots.

Length – 22 cm / 8.6 inches

Weight – 640 grams / 20.58 ozt

The crest is for Browne

The arms are for Browne quartering Hawkins impaling a coat of augmentation for Kinnoull quartering Hay

For Isaac Hawkins Browne (1745-1818) who married his first wife Henrietta Hay (1753-1802) on the 12th May 1788, they lived at Badger, Shropshire. Issac was the only son of the poet Isaac Hawkins Browne (1705-1760) and his wife, Jane Trimnell. Isaac was educated at Westminster School and later at Hertford College, Oxford, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in July 1770. Henrietta, the daughter of Edward Hay (1722-1779) and his first wife, Mary Flower (d.1775) and the granddaughter of George Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull (1689-1758) and his wife, Lady Abigail Harley (d. 1750), the youngest daughter of Robert Harley, the 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (1661-1724) and his wife, Elizabeth Foley (c. 1663-1691). Isaac and Henrietta were married by Archbishop’s Licence on the at the South Audley Chapel within the Parish of St George, Hanover Square in the County of Middlesex. Isaac was a Tory politician, industrialist, essayist and Lord of the Manor of Badger in the County of Shropshire.

Andrew Milne Collection