A REGENCY SILVER SEVEN-LIGHT CENTERPIECE CANDELABRUM

MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1817

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A REGENCY SILVER SEVEN-LIGHT CENTERPIECE CANDELABRUM
MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1817
On three foliate scroll feet with lion's masks, the circular base with grapevine-clad reeded rim and pendant shells, the stem formed as three cornucopiae bearing fruit and flowers headed by laurel swags and a double calyx of acanthus, with fluted central standard, with six leaf-clad multi-scroll branches, the part-fluted sockets with everted acanthus rims, with removable scalloped nozzles, together with amethyst cut glass centerpiece bowl, the base engraved with crest and Earl's coronet, the base stamped RUNDELL BRIDGE ET RUNDELL AURIFICES REGIS ET PRINCIPIS WALLIAE REGENTIS BRITANNIAS, fully marked, two nuts and three pendant wreaths apparently unmarked
21½ in. (54.6 cm.) high; 447 oz. (13,911 gr.)

Provenance

The Philip H. & A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, Philadelphia
Sotheby's, New York, 10 February 1976, lot 234
Koopman Rare Art, London, 1999

Literature

Peter Waldron, The Price Guide to Antique Silver, 1982, illus. p. 209, no. 665

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Lot Essay

The crest and coronet are those of John, 3rd Earl of Portsmouth, born in 1767. He married in 1799 Grace, daughter of Lord Grantley. She died in 1813 and he married the following year Mary Anne, daughter of John Hanson.

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