George Heming & William Chawner
The Waller Tureen
George Heming & William Chawner
The Waller Tureen
A George IlI Silver Soup Tureen, Cover and Stand
London, 1779
Maker’s mark of George Heming & William Chawner.
Length over handles: 47 cm , 18.5 in
Weight: 7,028.6 g, 226 oz
The crest and motto is that of Waller, baronets.
The circular tureen raised on four ribbon-wrapped scroll foliate spray feet. The lower body chased with overlapping stiff leaves, the main body with a frieze of ribbon and rosettes between to bands of beaded pearls. The tureen with reeded handle wrapped with oak leaves and the matching domed cover with pomegranate spray finial. The stand, also chased and applied to match, with acanthus-capped handles, central layered patera and four foliate spray feet, all engraved with crest and motto.
George Heming was the son of royal silversmith Thomas Heming Citizen and Goldsmith of London. He was apprenticed to his father 2 March 1763. His Freedom at the Goldsmith’s Hall is unrecorded. He appears as George Hemming, goldsmith, Piccadilly, in the Parl. Report list 1773, showing he had entered a mark, presumably in the missing register before that date. His hallmark is entered as plateworker, in partnership with William Chawner, 17 November 1774. Address: Bond Street. Second mark, Is February 1781. Address: Old Bond Street. Heal records G. Hem(m)ing, goldsmith and jeweller, Hand and Hammer opposite the Black Bear Inn, Piccadilly, c. 1760-73, but from the apprenticeship above the first date is either a mistake or refers to another. Heal also finds George Heming and William Chawner, plateworkers, King's Arms, New Bond Street facing Clifford Street, 1773-81; and Heming alone, at New Bond Street, I784-93, which makes it quite clear that they were successors to Thomas Heming at the same address.
You May Also Like
An Important Set of Four Silver-Gilt Royal Candlesticks
Paul Storr
The Madame Mère Inkstand
Jean-Baptiste Claude Odiot
An Extremely Rare Pair of William & Mary Candlesticks
A Rare George II Silver Shell-Form Basket
Philip Garden