Antique Old Sheffield Plate - 07_36 (scroll down to see image)

A Historically Important Pair of Georgian Old Sheffield Plate Soup Tureens and Stands
Sheffield, circa 1815 by George Ashforth & Co.
Height: 12", Length of stand: 16 3/4"

These tureens are engraved on one side with the English Royal arms and on the other with the arms of Shaw for William, First Earl Cathcart and Baron Greenock. The royal arms indicate that these tureens were made specifically as part of the Earl’s service of Ambassadorial silver when he served as the English Ambassador to the Russian Court at St. Petersburg from 1814 to 1821, and attended the Russian Emperor during the Napoleonic campaigns.