Ellis Finch
Head of Knightsbridge Silver Department
Lot 52
A George III silver soup tureen Paul Storr, London 1803
27 November 2019, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£15,000 - £20,000
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Michael Moorcroft
Consultant
A George III silver soup tureen
Paul Storr, London 1803
Oval shape with tongue and dart rim, the concave band above the bellied body with engraved arms on either side, the leaf-capped and ribbed scroll handles with bifurcated upper junctions, stepped and part-fluted dome cover, crested, with unmarked handle, on four acanthus and leaf embellished bracket feet, with the engraved arms and crests of Sir Archibald MacDonald (1747 - 1826) 1st Baron MacDonald of East Sheen Surrey, length handle to handle 40.5cm.
Oval shape with tongue and dart rim, the concave band above the bellied body with engraved arms on either side, the leaf-capped and ribbed scroll handles with bifurcated upper junctions, stepped and part-fluted dome cover, crested, with unmarked handle, on four acanthus and leaf embellished bracket feet, with the engraved arms and crests of Sir Archibald MacDonald (1747 - 1826) 1st Baron MacDonald of East Sheen Surrey, length handle to handle 40.5cm.
Footnotes
Sir Archibald MacDonald (1747-1826) was created 1st Baron MacDonald of East Sheen, Surrey, in 1813. He was the posthumous younger son of Sir Alexander MacDonald (1711-46) 7th Baron MacDonald of Slate, Isle of Skye and was born at Armadale Castle on Skye but moved to England as a boy to curb Jacobite tendencies. Married in 1777 Lady Louisa Leveson-Gower daughter of Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Marquess of Stafford and they had issue two sons and five daughters. The surviving son and heir Sir James MacDonald (1784-1832), who died unexpectedly of cholera in London only six years after his father, married three times.
Sir Archibald MacDonald was a lawyer and judge of considerable repute. He was 1777-80 MP for Hindon Wiltshire and 1780-82 MP for Newcastle under Lyme. He served first as Solicitor General and in 1783 was appointed Attorney General before becoming Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1793. On his retirement in 1813 he was created 1st Baron MacDonald of East Sheen Surrey, and he lived much of the remainder of his life outside Britain.
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