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Thomas Heming

( 1795 )

A Pair of George III Sauce Tureens on Stands

Thomas Heming

( 1795 )

A Pair of George III Sauce Tureens on Stands

By Thomas Heming
London 1765-66

Length: 21 cm (8 ¼ in)
Weight: 1,461 g (47 oz)


Each stand of quatrefoil form with gadrooned borders, the tureen conforming, the domed cover with squat ring handle, engraved with a crest on stand, tureen and cover.
 

The son of a Midlands merchant, Thomas Heming was apprenticed to Edmund Bodington on March 7, 1738, and turned over on the same day to the Huguenot goldsmith Peter Archambo. He registered his first mark in June 1745; in 1760 he was appointed principal goldsmith to King George III, in which capacity he was responsible for supplying regalia and plate required for the coronation. Heming held this appointment until 1782, when he was ousted after an investigation into his apparently excessive charges. Grimwade (1976, p. 543) comments that "some of his earlier surviving pieces in the Royal collection show a French delicacy of taste and refinement of execution which is unquestionably inherited from his master Archambo." Among Heming's outstanding works are a silver-gilt toilet service made for Queen Caroline of Denmark in 1766 (Dankse Kunstidustrimuseum, Copenhagen; Hernmarck 1977, pl. 727) and a wine cistern of 1770, made for Speaker Brownlow (Belton House, Lincolnshire; Grimwade 1974, pl. 12).

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