A GEORGE IV SILVER BASKET FROM THE SAMPAIO SERVICE
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT FAMILY COLLECTION
A GEORGE IV SILVER BASKET FROM THE SAMPAIO SERVICE

MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1821

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A GEORGE IV SILVER BASKET FROM THE SAMPAIO SERVICE
MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1821
Oval and on spreading foot, with overhead swing handle, chased overall with foliage scrolls and flowers, applied with a coat-of-arms below baron’s coronet, marked underneath and on coat-of-arms
14 3/8 in. (36.4 cm.) wide
58 oz. 6 dwt. (1,814 gr.)
The arms are those of Teixeira quartering Sampaio, Amaral and Guedes for Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio, Barao de Teixeira, later 1st Conde de Póvoa (1774-1833).
Provenance
Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio, Barao de Teixeira and later 1st Conde de Póvoa (1774-1833), then by descent to his son
João Maria de Noronha, 2nd Conde de Póvoa (1826-1837) on whose death in 1837 the titles became extinct and the family fortunes, and the dinner-service, passed to his sister
Marie Louise de Noronha Sampaio who married Domingos António Pedro de Sousa Holstein, later the 2nd Duke of Palmela (1818-1864).

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