An early George III sterling silver soup tureen, London 1766 by John Parker and Edward Wakelin

of bellied oval form with gadrooned and ribbed scroll rim, raised upon four asymmetrical rocaille scroll feet. The twin handles with leaf embellishments and foliate junctions. The lid of conforming domed shape with gadrooned band with embossed ribbed acanthus shell quarterings all surmounted by a cast detachable finial of a pomegranate with stem and leaves. The side engraved with a contemporaneous quartered and impaled coat of arms within a circular rocaille scroll cartouche within laurel leaves. Fully marked underneath and lid bezel, lion passant only to finial also engraved underneath No 1, 92=12, and No 1 to inside of lid.

Length – 43 cm / 16.75 inches

Weight – 2789 grams / 89.67 ozt

The arms are for Broughton quartering Delves impaling Wicker

For Rev. Sir Thomas Broughton 6th Bt. (c.1744-1813) who married Mary Wicker (d.1785) on the 31^st March 1766, of Broughton and Doddington Hall, Cheshire.

He was the son of Sir Brian Broughton-Delves, 4th Bt. (1717-44) and Mary Forester (d.1779), he succeeded to the 6th Baronet Broughton, of Broughton, co. Stafford [E., 1661] on the on 16^th

January 1766 upon the death of his brother Sir Brian Broughton-Delves, 5th Bt (1740-66). He held the office of High Sheriff of Staffordshire between 1772 and 1773. He was the grandson of Elizabeth Delves (d.1746) who was the daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Delves 4^th Bt (1652-1725).

Mary Wicker was the daughter of John Wicker and Charlotte Colebrooke.

For a tureen of 1766 by Parker and Wakelin, with the same form of finial and lid, sold Christie’s South Kensington, 9 April 2013, Lot 324.