A GEORGE II SILVER TUREEN
by Edward Wakelin, London 1751, of oval serpentine outline, engraved with arms of Lowther for William, 1st Earl of Lonsdale K.G. (1757-1844), 46.5cm long, the later liner by George Clements, London 1825, (c.135 tr. ozs combined); together with an associated stand by William Frisbee, London 1803, 40.5cm long, 50 tr. ozs; and a George II silver Old English pattern ladle, London 1740, 5 tr. ozs (3)
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Bidding ended. Lot is unsold.
Provenance: The Rt. Hon The Earl of Londsdale, Christie’s, 19th February 1947, lot 96 (a pair)
Purchased by the father of the present vendor from Christie’s 6th November 1996, ‘The Property of a Lady’ lot 130
The ladle purchased from John Nicholson 6th November 2002, lot 604
the collection of the late Mervyn Stewkesbury
Edward Wakelin (d. 1784)
Edward Wakelin was the son of Edward Wakelin, a baker of Uttoxeter in the county of Staffordshire. He was apprenticed to John Le Sage in June 1730, on payment of £21.00. By 2nd November 1747 he had joined the famous George Wickes (latterly Wickes & Netherton) at Panton Street, Haymarket, London, taking charge of the silversmith’s side of Wickes’ business from then onwards, later forming a partnership with John Parker I to form Parker & Wakelin as a successor to Wickes & Netherton from 1758. This partnership lasted until 1777 when Wakelin’s son John and his partner William Taylor took the business forward. Wakelin died in 1784, his obituary reading “At Mitcham Surrey Mr. Edw. Wakelin formerly a goldsmith in Panton Street, Died 7 Feb 1784” (the Gentleman’s Magazine, p. 152).
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