Sauce tureen

Sauce tureen
Sauce tureen
Object name 
Sauce tureen
Date 
ca. 1800
Medium 
Silver
Dimensions 
Overall: 5 1/2 x 9 1/4 x 4 1/8 in. ( 14 x 23.5 x 10.5 cm )
Description 
Wrought silver tureen with a cover; rectangular body, with an inverted pear-shaped rectangular lower half, which is highlighted by an applied, beaded band; applied, beaded band around the rim; body seated on a high, rectangular, stepped foot with a beaded band applied around the footring; two, cast squared handles covered with acanthus leaves, applied to the sides; rectangular, stepped and domed cover with a band of beading mid-way and surmounted by a domed rectangular finial with beading around its center; cover and the front center of the body engraved with the Lenox family crest, a crowned lion passant guardant; maker's mark on the base; pseudo English hallmarks stamped below the rim on the right side.
Credit Line 
Bequest of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.
Object Number 
1950.253cd
Marks 
engraved: on cover and center front: Lenox family crest, a crowned lion passant guardant stamped: on the base: "H * WISHART" in roman letters stamped: on right side below rim: pseudo English hallmarks, a bust in an oval, a lion passant in a rectngle and a roman "C" in an oval
Gallery Label 
This set of tureens originally belonged to Robert Lenox (1759-1839) of New York.
Provenance 
One small tureen purchased by Belknap from John Marshall Phillips, Yale University Art Gallery, August 3, 1939.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Creative: Tronvig Group