The covered tureens made by silversmith Thomas Germain are spectacular; a silver tureen by him, stamped for 1733, will be sold at Sotheby New York in November 1996 for US$10,287,500, setting the world's record auction price for a single piece of silver.

He makes a pair of tureens in 1735  for Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, to designs by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier that Henry Hawley has said "represents the apogee of the French rococo". (Henry Hawley, "Meissonnier's Kingston Tureen" Magazine Antiques January 1997.)