A REGENCY SILVER-GILT CENTERPIECE

MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1813

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A REGENCY SILVER-GILT CENTERPIECE
Mark of Paul Storr, London, 1813
On an incurved triangular base resting on bracket feet chased with rosettes, foliage and matting, the center applied with acanthus bud, the stand on three river god and scroll feet with fruit festoons between, applied above three times with a coat-of-arms with openwork foliage at the angles, stem formed as three maenads holding thyrsi between and surmounted with a detachable basket with pierced vine foliage border, flanked by three double acanthus foliage and scroll branches with partly fluted vase-shaped sockets and detachable nozzles, the base stamped RUNDELL BRIDGE ET RUNDELL AURIFICES REGIS ET PRINCIPIS WALLIAE REGENTIS BRITANNIAS, NO 320, fully marked, one branch maker's mark only, applied coat-of-arms and two thyrsi unmarked
20¾in. (53cm.) high; 345oz. (10746gr.)

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Roberts quartering Tillye and another, for a member of the Roberts family, Baronets of Glassenbury and Brightfieldstown, Co. Cork, possibly for Walter Roberts Esq. (1776-1828), who later succeeded his father as 2nd baronet in 1817. Walter Roberts married Catherine (d.1853), daughter of Rev. Edmund Gilbert of Bodmin, in 1800.

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