Details
A GEORGE III SILVER TEA KETTLE
maker's mark of Paul Storr, London, 1808
Of shaped-oblong form, the stand on shaped-recangular base and with lion's paw, scroll and acanthus leaf feet and oval urn-shaped double lamp with detachable cover, the partly fluted kettle with reeded spigot terminating in a lion's mask and with carved ivory anthemion tap and with gadrooned shell and scroll rim, ivory and serpent double scroll handle and domed cover with wrythen bud finial, engraved twice with a coat-of-arms and with crests, fully marked - 14¼in. (36.5cm.) high
182ozs. (5,685grs.)
The arms are those of O'Callaghan impaling Ormonde for Cornelius, 1st Viscount Lismore of Shanbally, Co. Tipperary (1775-1857) and his wife Eleanor, youngest daughter of John, 17th Earl of Ormonde, whom he married in 1808.
maker's mark of Paul Storr, London, 1808
Of shaped-oblong form, the stand on shaped-recangular base and with lion's paw, scroll and acanthus leaf feet and oval urn-shaped double lamp with detachable cover, the partly fluted kettle with reeded spigot terminating in a lion's mask and with carved ivory anthemion tap and with gadrooned shell and scroll rim, ivory and serpent double scroll handle and domed cover with wrythen bud finial, engraved twice with a coat-of-arms and with crests, fully marked - 14¼in. (36.5cm.) high
182ozs. (5,685grs.)
The arms are those of O'Callaghan impaling Ormonde for Cornelius, 1st Viscount Lismore of Shanbally, Co. Tipperary (1775-1857) and his wife Eleanor, youngest daughter of John, 17th Earl of Ormonde, whom he married in 1808.
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Christie's New York, 11 February 1982, lot 148