A George III silver sauceboat
John Wakelin & William Taylor, London 1776
Oval form with incurved upper section and gadroon rim, ribbed loop handle, the oval foot with gadroon band, length 21cm, together with a George III silver small platter, William Burwash & Richard Sibley, London 1806, shaped-oval form with gadroon rim, the border engraved with the arms of the STUART family, length 33.7cm, weight 39.5oz. (2)
Footnotes:
These arms on the platter are of the STUART family, the Lords Blantyre for Blantyre Priory, Lanarkshire in the Scottish peerage. The assay date of 1806 suggests that the holder of the arms at that time was Robert Walter STUART (1777-1830), 11th Lord Blantyre son of Alexander STUART (1728-1783), 10th Lord Blantyre, by Catherine LINDSAY (1751-1822) daughter of Patrick LINDSAY of Eaglescarnie. He married Fanny Mary RODNEY (1791-1875) daughter of the Hon. John RODNEY the younger son of George Brydges RODNEY (1718-1792), 1st Baron Rodney. He served as a Major General in the British army. He was succeeded by his second son Charles Walter STUART (1818-1900) but despite his marriage in 1843 to Evelyn SUTHERLAND-LEVESON-GOWER, daughter of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland his son predeceased him and the title became extinct. The main residences associated with the Lords Blantyre were Erskine House, Renfrewshire, Lennoxlove House, East Lothian and Place of Cardonald, Renfrewshire.