Silver sauce tureen with lid

Boat-shaped sauce tureen on oblong plinths, with gadrooned top rim. Domed cover with reeded loop handle. One side is engraved with Nelson's coat of arms as Viscount. with usual mottos. The cover has the chelengk crest on one side with a naval crown and Viscount’s coronet, on the other side the 'San Josef' crest, wrongly inscribed 'VANGUARD' and the motto 'FAITH AND WORKS'.

Object Details

ID: PLT0102
Collection: Decorative art
Type: Sauce tureen with lid
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Pontifex, Daniel
Events: Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen, 1801
Date made: 1801
People: Nelson, Horatio; Lloyd's Copenhagen Committee Nelson, Horatio
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 230 mm x 110 mm x 130 mm
Parts: Silver sauce tureen with lid
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