Catalogue of Newcastle Silver
1740-1758
1740, Salts (4)
Isaac Cookson
Diameter of top : 7.6 cm Height: 6.3 cm
Weight: 38.6 troy oz. /1200g.
Each salt: 298g to 303g
Provenance
Thomas Roddick Auction 20 November 2019 lot28
1740, Waiter
Isaac Cookson
Height: 3.2 cm. Diameter: 17.6 cm
Weight: 10.4 troy oz./324g
Provenance
Paul Dudley Antiques. May 2021
1740, Beaker
William Partis
1740, Coffee Pot
Isaac Cookson
1741, Tea Canisters
Isaac Cookson
1742, Mugs
Robert Makepeace
1743, Spoons
William Partis
Provenance
Dudley Antique Silver. 2024
Length: 20 cms
Weight: 330g all six
Initials: G/R*G
1744, Coffee Pot
William Partis
Provenance
AC Silver Newcastle 2022
Length from back of handle to tip of spout: 22cm (8.7")
Diameter: 10.5 cm (4.1")
Height: 24.3 cm (9.6")
Weight: 28.5 oz (888g)
1745, Coffee Pot
James Kirkup
1745, Cream Jug
Unknown
1746, Tea Caddy
Isaac Cookson
Tea caddy, silver 925, probably Newcastle 1746, probably Isaac Cookson, beveled corners, framing decorative bands with rocailles and mascarons, coat of arms motif on the front, profiled round lid.
10.3 x 7.5 x 5.4 cm, ca. 204 g
Provenance
AUKTIONSHAUS PLÜCKBAUM, Bonn. 18 Feb 2022 lot 448
1746, Coffee Pot
Isaac Cookson
A GEORGE II BALUSTER COFFEE POT with a leaf capped and fluted spout, double scroll fruitwood handle, with a pine cone finial.
Height 27cm, weight 30oz.
Provenance
Bonhams, Chester. 6 July 2010 lot 321
1746, Salver
Isaac Cookson
A GEORGE II SILVER SALVER with rococo scroll border and three hoof feet, centre flat-chased with panels of shells, flowers and fruiting vines around a central armorial cartouche.
26.6cm. diameter, 21oz..
Provenance
Bonhams, London. 24 March 2005 lot 93
1746, Two-handled Cup
Isaac Cookson
A GEORGE II TWO-HANDLED PORRINGER circular embossed with bat-wing flutes and a scroll cartouche below a rope-twist girdle of acanthus leaves.
Height 7cm, weight 3.5oz.
Provenance
Bonhams, Harrogate. 25 November 2008 lot 82
1746? Tankard
John Langlands?
A GEORGE II SILVER TANKARD Mark of John Langlands, Newcastle, 1746 Baluster, the scroll handle with applied drop and heart-shaped terminal, the front engraved with foliate monogram GER, the hinge engraved underneath with inventory number 5, marked near rim, on cover, and on handle.
8¼in. (21cm.) high; 28oz. (876gr.)
Provenance
Christie's New York, 11 April 2003 lot 314
1746, Dolphin Sauceboat
Isaac Cookson
1746, Mug
John Langlands
eBay March 2024
1747, Dolphin Sauceboats
Isaac Cookson
A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER SAUCEBOATS with shaped rim, flying dolphin handles and on three elaborate lion mask and paw supports, engraved with an armorial to one side and a tiger crest to the other for Dent, the initials D over I.I to underside.Full clear marks to the underside of both. Engraving to initials and armorials clear. The feet slightly pushed inwards on one. General wear and scratching to both, minor knock to rim at edge and one at spout. The armorial and crest probably later than the initials to the underside.
19.5cm long, 28oz 6dwt (2)
Provenance
Tennants Auctions, Yorkshire. 18 November 2017 lot 528
1747, Dolphin Sauceboat
William Partis
A DOLPHIN HANDLED SAUCEBOAT WITH ROCOCO CHASING has a low oval body raised from sheet; a cut wave-form shaped rim and a broad curved pouring lip. The body is supported by three cast legs with paw feet. The feature dolphin handle is formed of two castings seamed down the handle with a vent hole around the mouth. The dolphin’s tail is attached to the sauceboat body. The body is flat chased rococo with flowers and swirling leaves and a single shell beneath the lip. There is a crest in the cartouche.
Height to top of handle: 14.4 cm Height to lip: 7.5 cm Length handle to lip: 18.2 cm Width: 9.0 cm Weight: 10.8 troy oz./336g
Provenance
Bonhams 11 Dec 2019 Lot 136
Elstob & Elstob Yorkshire May 2020
1747, Coffee Pot
Isaac Cookson
A GEORGE II COFFEE POT of tapering circular baluster form, scroll handle, domed hinged cover with a cone finial, shell capped spout with chased decoration at joint to body, the whole on a raised circular foot.
Height 26cm, weight 28oz.
Provenance
Bonhams, Harrogate. 25 November 2008 lot 81
1747, Tankard
Isaac Cookson
A GEORGE II TANKARD with applied waist band, the domed cover to a scroll thumb-piece, the "S" scroll handle with a heart-shape terminal, intialled W over I*E.
Height 19cm, weight 24.5oz.
Provenance
Bonhams, Chester. 5 March 2013 lot 125
1747?, Mugs
John Langlands?
Baluster shape on spreading circular foot, with scroll handle, crest engraved on body of each, marked under base
4½in. (11.5cm.) high; 21oz. (655gr.) gross weight (2)
Provenance
Edward S. Whitney, Montclair, New Jersey, by gift 1936
Christie's New York. 11 April 2003 lot 270
1747?, Tankard
John Langlands?
A GEORGE II TANKARD with applied waist band, the domed cover to a scroll thumb-piece, the "S" scroll handle with a heart-shape terminal, intialled W over I*E.
Height 19cm, weight 24.5oz.
Provenance
Bonhams, Chester. 5 March 2013 lot 125
1747, Wine Taster
William Partis
c.1748, Coffee Pot
William Partis
This elongated pear shape body is raised, with a formed lip and a cast and applied circular foot. The swan neck spout is cast in two vertical halves and ornamented at its base with shellwork and at its lip with a stylised swan head with an eye on each side and topped with a single acanthus leaf. The upper handle socket with a pendant shell has a five-part hinge attached. The scrolled lower handle socket is applied to a circular reinforcing disc. The scrolled fruitwood handle with thumb support is attached to each socket with a silver pin. The domed cover is raised and has an applied lip moulding and a cast and applied bud shaped-finial. The body is decorated with rococo interlocking scrolls, flowers, shells and leaves. The spout is cast with shells, scrolls and an acanthus leaf at front. The lid with gadroon decoration interspersed with shells. The circular foot with shells around.The base is engraved with the initials ‘W/T*I’.
Height to knop: 25.6 cm. Height to rim: 19.0 cm Width spout to handle: 21.0 cm Diameter Lip: 8.0 cm Diameter Base: 10.4 cm Weight: 31.4 Troy oz. / 976g.
1748, Two-handled Cup
Isaac Cookson
A GEORGE II SILVER TWO-HANDLED CUP of plain form with a flared rim, reeded S scroll handles, raised on a spreading foot, engraved C over M*R to the body and base.
Height 10.5cm, weight 6.5oz..
Provenance
Bonhams, Chester. 5 September 2013 lot 78
1748, Two-handled Cup
Isaac Cookson
This Grace cup has a plain inverted-bell shaped form to a circular spreading base. The handles are fabricated from two pieces of sheet with a small thumb rest at the top. The surface is encircled with a plain applied girdle and the rim has the same to form a lip.
Height: 12.0 cm. Width at Handle: 18.5 cm Diameter of. Lip: 9.9 cm Diameter of Base: 7.7 cm Weight: 9.0 troy oz./ 280g
1748, Salts
Robert Makepeace
These compressed circular salts are raised from sheet and rest on three cast stepped hoof feet. Each salt has an applied rope-twist rim joined in one place.
Height: 3.8 cm. Diameter of bowl: 5.2 cm Weight each: 2.7 troy oz. / 84g
Provenance
Bonhams, Knowle. 21 June 2011 lot 332
1748, Salts
Unknown
A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER SALTS of plain circular form, with gadrooned rim, on three hoof feet, with blue glass liners.
Diameter 8cm, weight 8oz. (4)
Provenance
Bonhams, Knowle. 23 September 2008 lot 537
1748, Dolphin Sauceboat
William Partis
A GEORGE II DOLPHIN HANDLE SAUCEBOAT with shaped rim, on three bracket feet with rare cast dolphin handle in crisp condition. Engraved 'MB to IH 1751'
5.25" (13cm)
Provenance
J.H. Bourdon-Smith, London 2020
1748, Tankard
Isaac Cookson
A GEORGE II TANKARD of conventional form with mid-rib, with scroll thumb-piece, the double scroll handle with heart-shaped terminal. The handle has original marriage initials (S, I*M) and also the makers mark for Isaac Cookson.
Christie: Tapering sides applied with a narrow girdle, the unmarked cover, possibly a replacement, with scrolled thumbpiece, the handle engraved with initials S over I * M and terminating in a heart-shaped cartouche
6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) high
20 oz. (567 gr.)
Height 18cm. Weight 19.8oz.
Exhibited
Exhibition of Silver Plate of Newcastle Manufacture, in the Blackgate Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 19th to 21st May, 1897. Item 232
Provenance
Mr. C. Perkins 1897
Christie's London. 20 April 2008 lot 43
Bonhams, Edinburgh. 24 February 2016 lot 167
Highland Antiques, Aberdeen
1748, Chocolate Pot
John Langlands?/Isaac Cookson
A GEORGE II CHOCOLATE POT, probably by Isaac Cookson but maker's mark later overstruck by John Langlands (II) acting as retailer, Newcastle, 1748, fully marked to base, lion passant to rim of finial, maker's mark and lion passant to rim of cover,
tapering sides and spreading foot, scalloped, leaf-capped spout, domed cover with detachable artichoke finial on chain attachment, handle with shell beneath upper junction, rococo armorial engraved to front.
27cm. high.
Provenance
Bonhams, London. 21 November 2003 lot 90
1748, Coffee Pot
James Kirkup
Provenance
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
1749, Coffee Pot
Isaac Cookson
A GEORGE II COFFEE POT with a plain tapering body, armorial engraved, the leaf-capped and fluted spout with shell junction, the unmarked cover applied with cone finial (possibly domed at a later date) terminating in spread circular foot,
27cm. high, approx weight 28oz.
Provenance
Bonhams, Jersey. 23 September 2004 lot 181
1749, Coffee Pot
William Partis
A GEORGE II SILVER COFFEE POT of baluster form, with a cast scroll spout and flat chased floral panels below a pine-cone finial.
Baluster with stylised mask to spout and chased flowers and shells around spout and junctions of handle, cover with band of leafage and a pine-cone finial, height 9¾ in. (25 cm.), 29 oz.
25.0cm high, 27oz
Provenance
Bonhams, Leeds. 15 March 2005 lot 341
Christie's London, 13 December 2005 lot 1128
1749, Coffee Pot
William Partis
Provenance
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
1749, Coffee Pot
William Beilby
A GEORGE II COFFEE POT of circular bellied body form, chased with rocaille bands and cartouches, engraved with a crest. The cover with pine-cone finial.
Christie's: Chased with two wide bands of shells, scrolls and flowers, the sides with rocaille cartouches incorporating crest and coat of arms, the cover with pine cone finial
9¾ in. high (24.75 cm.)
26½ oz. (821.5 gr.)
24.5cm high, 26oz.
Provenance
Bonhams, Leeds. 28 March 2006 lot 630
Christie's London. 15 December 2010 lot 881
1749, Two-handled Cup
Isaac Cookson
A GEORGE II TWO-HANDLED CUP of inverted-bell shaped form on a raised circular spreading cast base. The surface is encircled with a applied moulded plain mid-band and the rim has been shaped to form a lipThe double scroll handles are hollow cast in halves and seamed vertically. There is a small casting hole on the seam of each handle at the base of the lower scroll. The top of the handles are covered with an applied leaf decoration.<br><br>The raised, domed cover with flared lip is plain topped with a plain finial. It is unmarked and added later.<br><br>The body is engraved with a ‘squirrel’ crest the same as the 1743 Salver. This is likely to be the Cresswell family of Cresswell, Morpeth. Landed gentry since time of King John. (Ref Thomas Bewick bookplate).
The cover is later.
Height to top of cover: 28.0 cm; Height to top of cup: 18.5 cm; Width at Handle: 27.0 cm; Diameter at Lip: 14.5 cm; Diameter of Base: 10.9 cm; Weight: 49.4 Troy oz./1,535g
Provenance
Christie's London, 5 November 2015, Lot 311
Wax Antiques, London
1749, Salver
Isaac Cookson
A GEORGE II SILVER CIRCULAR WAITER with shell and scroll border, centred with a crested reserve.
Diameter 18.5cm, weight 8oz.
Provenance
Bonhams, Chester. 12 June 2012 lot 205
1749, Salts
William Partis (possibly)
A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER SALT CELLARS, possibly by William Partis, circular form, rope-work borders, on three mask and scroll capped hoof feet, with blue glass liners.
Diameter 8cm, approx. weight 11.5oz. (2)
Provenance
Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury. 29 April 2015 lot 709
1749, Beaker
William Partis
Of flaring form with a moulded foot and rim, the body decorated with a coat of arms, fully marked, 19 cm (7 1/2in) high, 514 gr (18.1oz)
Provenance
Christie's Melbourne 30 March 2004 lot 591
1749, Tankard
William Partis
Of plain baluster form with domed cover & pierced thumbpiece, applied reeded girdle, 7 in. high (17.8 cm.), 16.25 oz.
Provenance
Christie's London. 22 May 2007 lot 332
1749, Tankard
Isaac Cookson
190mm high.
NT980664
Provenance
The National Trust, Nunnington Hall, Yorkshire
1749, Salt Cellars
William Partis
1750, Cream Boat
William Partis
A GEORGE II SILVER CREAM BOAT, with shaped rim, the scroll handle terminating in a fantastical animal head, with an applied bull to one side and a grazing cow the other, the base engraved with a crest and inscribed with the initial L above earlier inscribed initials L.T.D.
5 5/8 in. long (14.25 cm.) 5¼ oz. (162.75 gr.)
Provenance
Christie's London. 15 December 2010 lot 865
c.1750, Caster
John Kirkup
A GEORGE III SUGAR CASTER of baluster form with pierced and engraved cover, the body with the crest of a cockerel on a trumpet crest. Three markings on the base (maker, Newcastle, lion passant) and a single lion passant marking on the rim of the cover.
16.5cms high, 7.6oz.
Provenance
Mary Cooke Antiques, London
Private Collector
Anderson & Garland, Newcastle. 7 December 2020 lot 210
c.1750, Lemon Strainer
Isaac Cookson
A GEORGE II SILVER TWO-HANDLED LEMON STRAINER maker's mark and lion passant on handles only, shaped leaf scroll handles with shell, the bowl pierced with scrolls, crosslets and dots.
Length handle to handle 19.5cm, weight 2.9oz.
Provenance
Bonhams, Chester. 4 September 2012 lot 159
c.1750, Bottle Label
Isaac Cookson
A GEORGE II SILVER BOTTLE LABEL, two cupid form, with an urn and ewer with trailing grapevines and a Bacchus mask, incised 'HOCK'.
Length 5.8cm, approx. weight 0.9oz.
Provenance
Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury. 17 July 2018 lot 338
c.1750, Coffee Pot
Unknown
Tapering cylindrical with tuck-in base and scroll-form spout, the stepped domed cover with baluster finial, engraved under base with monogram S over S*M, marked under base;
9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) high;
Provenance
Collection of Professor and Mrs. Clifford Ambrose Truesdell
Christie's New York. 22 May 2009 lot 223
1750, Coffee Pot
James Kirkup
Of tapering bellied form upon a moulded spreading circular foot, the shell moulded curved spout opposite a fruitwood C scroll handled pinned to scroll sockets with an upper shell junction surrounded with cut card work. The hinged double domed lid surmounted by an ovoid finial. Engraved with initials underneath GM with a fleur-de-lis between in Roman script. Fully marked underneath.
Height – 24.6 cm / 9.7 inches; Weight – 784 grams / 25.21 ozt
Provenance
Chiswick Auctions, London. 3 March 2022 lot 500
Elstob & Elstob, Yorkshire. 8 July 2022 lot 1456
1750, Pepper
Isaac Cookson
1750, Wine Label
Isaac Cookson
1751?, Tankard
Langlands & Robertson?
1751, Beer Jug
James Kirkup
Provenance
Mallory's of Bath. 20 April 1995
Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury. 25 April 2018 lot 610
Mary Cooke Antiques. London, June 2019
1751, Dolphin Sauceboat
Isaac Cookson
1752, Coffee Pot
James Kirkup
1752, Coffee Pot
Isaac Cookson
1753, Mug
Isaac Cookson
1753, Salver
Thomas Makepeace
Provenance
DVC Auctions, Gent-Mariakerke, Belgium. 2 March 2024 lot 372
Diameter: 18.5 cm
Weight: 248g
1754, Chocolate Pot
Langlands & Goodrick
1754, Coffee Pot
James Kirkup
1754, Tankard
Langlands & Goodrick
1754, Butter Shells (3)
Unknown
Town marks visible and some date letters but makers marks very rubbed.
Length: 10 cm
Weight: 316g for all three
Provenance
Dudley Antique Silver. 2024
1756, Salver
John Kirkup
Provenance
Leopard Antiques, South Africa. 2024
Diameter: 15cm
Weight: 220g
1757, Mustard Pot
John Langlands
1757, Porringer
John Langlands
1757, Cup
John Langlands
1758, Kitchen Pepper
John Langlands
C. J. Jackson
English Goldsmiths and their Marks
1902