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The base has a gadrooned foot and a band of reed and ribbon moulding. On the body a band of Greek key pattern, on the lid a flower. The handles formed as stylized vegetables stalks. On the back of the sheet one of the handles has been traced through in pencil. \rThis is a design for a soup tureen for a service made for the 4th Duke of Marlborough in 1768- 1769 retailed by Parker and Wakelin. Two oval and two round tureens were made by Sebastian and James Crespel in 1769, of which one example is in Leeds City Art Gallery. A later version is at Blenheim Palace. \rThe tureens as made replaced the Greek key with a Vitruvian scroll. \rThis appears to be a presentation drawing. \rBought together with 72 other drawings from Major H. Bateman via J. Starkie Gardner on the 29th November 1910, for £ 37-0-0. \r\r\r\nChambers was born in Sweden and died in London. He travelled widely, visiting China, and studied architecture at the Ecole des Arts, Paris, from 1749 and in Italy from 1750 to 1755.  Many of his drawings from this period are contained in his important 'Franco-Italian' album, held in the V&amp;A.  Chambers moved to London in 1755 and published his influential Treatise on Civil Architecture in 1759.  Chambers demonstrated the breadth of his style in buildings such as Gower (later Carrington) House and Melbourne House, London, in such country houses as Duddingston, Scotland, and in the garden architecture he designed for Wilton House, Wiltshire, and at Kew Gardens. He became head of government building in 1782, and in this capacity built Somerset House, London.\rChambers also designed furniture and silver. The silver is usually linked to clients for whom he was also designing architectural schemes. \rThe designs for silver are all in the hand of the architect John Yenn, who was a pupil of Chambers, for whom he became a leading draughtsman, working for him from 1764 until the late 1770s, when he began to practice on his own account. \r","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"A design for a silver soup tureen by John Yenn, after Sir William Chambers, c. 1769\r\n","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"‘Sir William Chambers and the Duke of Marlborough’s Silver’, <u>Apollo</u>, Vol. 125, No. 304, June 1987, pp. 396-400, fig 2. \r\r‘The silver designs of Sir William Chambers: a resumé and recent discoveries’, <u>The Silver Society Journal</u>, Vol. 7, 1995, pp. 335-341, fig 5.   \r \r‘Sir William Chambers and John Yenn; designs for silver’, <u>Burlington Magazine</u>, Vol. 128, No. 994, January 1986, pp. 31-35, fig 32. \r \r ‘Silver, Ormolu and ceramics ‘ in John Harris and Michael Snodin (eds), <u>Sir William Chambers , Architect to George III,</u> 1996, pp. 149-162, fig 220.   \r\r<u>‘Sir William Chambers; Catalogues of Architectural Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum’ </u>Michael Snodin (ed), 1996, cat 606. \r"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":""}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"","id":""},{"text":"elevation","id":"AAT34065"},{"text":"gadrooning","id":"AAT10175"},{"text":"moulding","id":"AAT53134"},{"text":"handles","id":"AAT24927"},{"text":"vegetables","id":"x35646"},{"text":"stalk","id":"AAT11904"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"<b>John Yenn (1750-1821)</b> after Sir William Chambers (1723-1796)\r\nDesign for a tureen\r\nBritish, about 1767\r\nPen and ink and watercolour\r\n\r\nIn addition to being an accomplished architect and the chief\r\nassistant to Sir William Chambers, Yenn was a gifted designer of\r\nsilver in the neoclassical style. A tureen almost identical to this\r\ndesign was made for the Duke of Marlborough by the silversmiths\r\nSebastian and James Crespel under the aegis of John Parker and\r\nEdward Wakelin and is now in Leeds City Art Galleries.\r\nThis design incorporates a number of typical neoclassical motifs\r\nincluding handles made from palm leves twisted back, and the\r\ndecorative key pattern which was replaced by a' Vitruvian scrole'\r\nE. 4992-1910","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["E.4992-1910"],"accessionNumberNum":"4992","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1910,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-12","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}