MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1811

Details

A PAIR OF GEORGE III WINE-COOLERS FROM THE PORTMAN SERVICE
MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1811
Each campana shaped on spreading circular gadrooned foot, the lower part of the bodies chased with flutes and with two reeded lion's mask bracket handles, applied beneath the fluted lip with a band of anthemion, and in the centre with a coat-of-arms, the collars and plain liners engraved with crests, marked on bodies, collars and liners
10 1/8 in. (25.8 cm.) high
301 oz. 17 dwt. (7,332 gr.)
The arms are those of Portman quartering Berkeley impaling Hulse quartering Lethieullier, for Edward Berkeley Portman (1771-1823) and his second wife Mary, eldest daughter of Sir Edward Hulse Bt., whom he married in 1816.

Provenance

Edward Berkeley Portman (1771-1823).
The Lillian and Morrie Moss Collection, Memphis, Tennessee, by 1973.
President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines (1917-1989) and Mrs. Imelda Marcos (b.1929),
The Republic of the Philippines, Presidential Commission for Good Government; Christie’s, New York, 10 January 1991, lot 43.

Literature

M. A. Moss, The Lillian and Morrie Moss Collection of Paul Storr Silver, Miami, 1973, p. 154, p. 97

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Lot Essay

WILLIAM BERKELEY PORTMAN
William Berkeley Portman was born into a Somerset family of great antiquity having received a grant of arms in 1300. They moved to Dorset where they established estates which stood at 30,000 acres at their peak. William was educated at St. John's College Cambridge before completing the Grand Tour. He entered politics and sat as an independent candidate at the general election of 1820. He was returned unopposed. He did not have a very active voting record in Parliament, and it has been suggested that his irregular attendance may have been due to ill health. Portman continued to develop the family's London estate, creating leases for the establishing of Montagu, Bryanston and Dorset Squares. He died, in Rome, in January 1823, whilst travelling with his family, who returned home to place him in the family vault at Bryanston. His son and namesake succeeded to his estates in Dorset, Somerset and Marylebone. He was later created 1st Baron Portman in 1837 and 1st Viscount Portman in 1873, having sat as M.P. for Dorset until the Reform Act of 1832, after which he was elected M.P. for Marylebone.

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