A Pair of George II Rococo Sauce Boats
A Pair of George II Rococo Sauce Boats
London, 1744
By Isaac Duke
Weight: 18,66.2 g, 60 oz
Length: 21.9 cm, 8.626in
These glorious sauceboats with applied rococo cartouches and sprays of berried foliage linked by swags of flowers to a putto mask below the spout. Their bold open-mouthed wyvern handles and foot cast with a river god, rabbit, lizard, mushrooms and shells together foliage makes these sauceboats a triumph of the goldsmith Isaac Duke.
The same foot appears on a pair of sauce boats by Frederick Kandler, 1740, in the Ashmolean Museum, see Timothy Schroder, British and Continental Gold and Silver in the Ashmolean Museum, 2009, vol. I, no.150, p. 388.
A similar pair was sold Christie’s, February 25 1920, lot 40, reproduced op. cit. p. 400, while a plainer pair by Duke show the same wyvern handles, no. 155, p. 400.
A pair of sauce boats by Frederick Kandler 1742, of which one is the Metropolitan Museum, the other in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, show similar handles, though differently chased, see Christopher Hartop, The Huguenot Legacy, 1996, no. 42, pp. 208-211.
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