Pair Sauce Tureens by Wakelin & Taylor

Two    very fine Georgian sauce tureens by the important London firm of Wakelin    & Taylor. These oval tureens are complete with original covers topped    with cone finials and an optional pair of later sauce ladles. The tureens    were made a decade apart but are identical in form. The classical urn shape    on pedestal foot and the bead decoration were the in vogue styles for the    period. The bodies and covers are all engraved with the same lions head    erased crest supported by two snakes.

The makers were an important link in a dynasty of Royal    silversmiths that began with George Wickes in the early 18th century and    continues today in the guise of Garrards & Company. This partnership    made some of the finest quality pieces of silver for the most wealthy    aristocrats in the country.