Silver sauce ladles

One of two (the other is marked ZBA4272) matching fiddle-pattern hall marked silver sauce ladles, with oval bowls, engraved on the front of the handles with Nelsons 'San Josef' and chelengk crests. Part of the Lloyd's presentation to Nelson after the Battle of Copenhagen. The ladles match the Nelson silver sauce tureens in NMM's collection.

Object Details

ID: ZBA4273
Collection: Decorative art
Type: Ladle
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Eley, William; Fearn, William
Date made: 1797
People: Nelson, Horatio
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, donated at the request of the late Sir Robin Rowell, CBE, AFC
Measurements: Overall: 30 mm x 64 mm x 179 mm