A George III sterling silver soup tureen, London 1806 by William Bennett (reg. 1st June 1796, died 1825)

A George III sterling silver soup tureen, London 1806 by William Bennett (reg. 1st June 1796, died 1825)

Of rounded rectangular form with gadrooned rim, all upon a spreading rectangular foot. The pull off domed lid surmounted by an associated cast detachable heraldic finial of dragon’s head erased with a baton in the mouth, marked with maker’s mark for William Fountain and lion passant. The twin handles with louts sepal detail and shell form junctions. The base and side with an engraved impaled coat of arms above the motto Probum Non Poenitet, the arms on the base surmounted by a crest of a griffin segregant. The lid and the base each with a numeral 1. Fully marked to the foot side and lid side.

Height – 22.8 cm / 9 inches

Length – 37.9 cm / 14.9 inches

Weight – 3433 grams / 110.37 ozt

The arms are for Bayntun quartering Sandys impaling Allen

For Sir Edwin Bayntun-Sandys, 1st Baronet (1774-1848) who married 9 May 1799 Agnes Cornish Allen (1778-1846) the eldest daughter of Michael Allen of Coleridge House, Stokenham (c.1749-1828). Sir Edwin was the 3rd and youngest son of Myles (or Miles) Sandys of West Alvington (1730-1793).

Title created on the 26 September 1809 Baronet of Miserden Castle in the County of Gloucester and of Chadlington Hall in the County of Oxford. He had been born Edwin Sandys but had assumed the additional surname of Bayntun by Royal sign manual in 1807 to inherit from the will of William Bayntun (1717–1785), a lawyer of Gray's Inn and widower of his first cousin once removed, Catherine Sandys (1737–1804).

Bayntun-Sandys's eldest son, Edwin Windsor Bayntun-Sandys (1801–38), was knighted in 1825 but predeceased his father in 1838, as did his only brother Miles Allen Bayntun-Sandys (1766–1813). Consequently, the title became extinct on his death in 1848.