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Very Fine George III Silver Cup & Cover, Paul Storr with London (1795) hallmarks, clear maker`s
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Hillsborough, North Carolina
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Very Fine George III Silver Cup & Cover, Paul Storr with London (1795) hallmarks, clear maker`s mark for Storr, parcel gilt, urn form with two handles featuring finely detailed acanthus motif, raised on a circular foot decorated with batswing fluting and water leaves supporting a vase form body with lanceolate leaves below and an applied border at neck featuring fluted lunettes and garlands against a stippled ground, the removable cover with scrolling floral motif beneath batswing fluting to neck all capped by a foliate finial. Fully marked to cover and foot.
15.75 in.
64.6 total troy oz.
This spectacular piece is emblazoned on both sides with the Peters of London family crest. This crest is comprised of ""a swan regardant proper, gorged with a ducal coronet sable, resting the dexter foot on a mascle gold"" (Fairburn`s Book of Crests, 1905 edition reprint). This impressive work is a wonderful example of Paul Storr`s restrained and elegant Neoclassical works produced early in his illustrious career. Similar cups and covers are in the collection of both the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute (full page illustration in the English Irish & Scottish Silver catalogue) and the Yale University Art Gallery. A similar cup and cover from the Collection at Knole and presented to the 3rd Duke of Dorset by William Gardiner is illustrated in PAUL STORR 1771-1844: SILVERSMITH & GOLDSMITH by N. M. Penzer (The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd., 1971, pp 88-89). Penzer also asserts the existence of ""an almost exactly similar cup & cover"" known as the Braye cup. The shell and swag border and the scrolling foliate design to the cover are identical to those on a teapot on stand in the Jerome and Rita Gans Collection of English Silver at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. See Christies Sale 9988, lot 238, for a similar cup and cover selling for $23,500 in 2001.
Estate of the Late Dorothy G. Hale & Co., Chicago, IL and by descent. Cover wobbles slightly on cup; small ding to inner ring of cover; else fine.
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Very Fine George III Silver Cup & Cover, Paul Storr with London (1795) hallmarks, clear maker`s mark for Storr, parcel gilt, urn form with two handles featuring finely detailed acanthus motif, raised on a circular foot decorated with batswing fluting and water leaves supporting a vase form body with lanceolate leaves below and an applied border at neck featuring fluted lunettes and garlands against a stippled ground, the removable cover with scrolling floral motif beneath batswing fluting to neck all capped by a foliate finial. Fully marked to cover and foot.
15.75 in.
64.6 total troy oz.
This spectacular piece is emblazoned on both sides with the Peters of London family crest. This crest is comprised of ""a swan regardant proper, gorged with a ducal coronet sable, resting the dexter foot on a mascle gold"" (Fairburn`s Book of Crests, 1905 edition reprint). This impressive work is a wonderful example of Paul Storr`s restrained and elegant Neoclassical works produced early in his illustrious career. Similar cups and covers are in the collection of both the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute (full page illustration in the English Irish & Scottish Silver catalogue) and the Yale University Art Gallery. A similar cup and cover from the Collection at Knole and presented to the 3rd Duke of Dorset by William Gardiner is illustrated in PAUL STORR 1771-1844: SILVERSMITH & GOLDSMITH by N. M. Penzer (The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd., 1971, pp 88-89). Penzer also asserts the existence of ""an almost exactly similar cup & cover"" known as the Braye cup. The shell and swag border and the scrolling foliate design to the cover are identical to those on a teapot on stand in the Jerome and Rita Gans Collection of English Silver at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. See Christies Sale 9988, lot 238, for a similar cup and cover selling for $23,500 in 2001.
Estate of the Late Dorothy G. Hale & Co., Chicago, IL and by descent. Cover wobbles slightly on cup; small ding to inner ring of cover; else fine.
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Hillsborough
North Carolina
27278
United States
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