A PAIR OF REGENCY SILVER WINE-COOLERS

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A PAIR OF REGENCY SILVER WINE-COOLERS
LONDON, 1818, MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL STORR

Campana-shaped on spreading bases chased with a band of dentilation, the lower part of the bodies fluted and chased above front and back with armorials, each with two reeded and foliate lion-mask handles, chased under the everted fluted rims with a band of honeysuckle on a matted ground, with removable collars applied with a band of ovolo and cylindrical liners, the collars and liners engraved with the same crests, fully marked -- 10 in. (25.4 cm.) high
(235 oz.)
Provenance
Morrie A. Moss
Literature
Morrie A. Moss, The Lillian and Morrie Moss Collection of Paul Storr Silver, Miami, 1972, p. 154, plate 97

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Portman quartering those of Berkeley and impaling those of Julse quartering those of Lethieullier, as borne by Edward Berkeley Portman of Bryanston and Orchard Portman, born in 1771. He married as his first wife Lucy, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Whitby, who died in 1812. He married second, in 1816, Mary, eldest daughter of Sir Edward Hulse, Bt. of Breamore House, Wiltshire. He died at Rome in 1823 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward, who in 1837 was created Viscount Portman.