A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER ENTREE DISHES AND COVERS ON SHEFFIELD PLATED STANDS FROM THE BATTENBERG SERVICE
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER ENTREE DISHES AND COVERS ON SHEFFIELD PLATED STANDS FROM THE BATTENBERG SERVICE

MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1810; STANDS MAKER'S MARK OF MATTHEW BOULTON

細節
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER ENTREE DISHES AND COVERS ON SHEFFIELD PLATED STANDS FROM THE BATTENBERG SERVICE
Maker's mark of Paul Storr, London, 1810; stands maker's mark of Matthew Boulton
Oblong, with gadrooned rims and shells at intervals, the dishes engraved with a crest on each side, the high domed covers with lion's- mask reeded handles over a foliate calyx and engraved with accol coat-of-arms, the conforming plated stands with liners on lion's-paw feet with gadrooned rims, marked on dishes, covers, one calyx and on reverse of liners
15in. (40cm.) long over handles; 161oz. (5025gr.) (2)
來源
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice, Christie's, London, May 4, 1932

拍品專文

The arms are those of Battenberg accol with the Royal arms of Great Britain with those of Saxony on an escutcheon of pretence, as borne by His Royal Highness Prince Henry Maurice of Battenberg K.G., and his wife, Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice, fifth daughter of Queen Victoria, whom he married in 1885.

These entree dishes are part of an extensive dinner service by Paul Storr, weighing a total of 4,882 ounces, sold from Princess Beatrice's apartments at Kensington Palace at Christie's on May 4, 1932, for a total of L1,168 (the auction is described in Arthur Grimwade, Silver for Sale, 1994, pp. 17-19). For individual pieces subsequently sold from the Battenburg Service, see Christie's, New York, October 18, 1995, lot 329.

A pair of identical entree dishes on stands, of 1809 by Storr and Boulton, but not from the Battenburg Service, sold in these Rooms, April 15, 1997, lot 268.