A GEORGE III SILVER SEVEN-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE**

MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1817

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A GEORGE III SILVER SEVEN-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE**
Maker's mark of Paul Storr, London, 1817
Comprising hot water kettle on stand with burner, coffee pot on stand with burner, teapot on stand, two cream jugs, and two open sugar bowls; the kettle and coffee pot stands each on a triangular base with cut-corners and three shell and scroll feet, each stand with three leaf-capped scroll feet between openwork garlands under a cast band of flowers and shells, each body baluster on a circular foot, the part-fluted body chased and repouss with fruit and flowers on a matted ground amid rococo cartouches enclosing floral diaperwork, the fluted neck everted, the teapot and coffee pot with ivory scroll handles and foliate joins, the kettle with overhead fluted ivory handle with scroll joins, the spouts chased with scalework, shells, and foliage, the hinged covers with similar decoration and surmounted by a bud finial, the stands and each side of the bodies engraved with a crest and motto within a garter beneath a Viscount's coronet, the burners engraved with a Viscount's coronet, each marked under base, on cover, under stand, and on burner, the kettle stand also stamped RUNDELL BRIDGE ET RUNDELL AURIFICES REGIS ET PRINCIPIS WALLIAE REGENTIS BRITANNIAS
The kettle on stand 16in. (42cm.) high; gross weight 370oz. (11520gr.)
Storr, Paul (7)

Provenance

The Executors of the late Lieutenant Commander L.T. Metters and the late Mrs. H. de Vahl Metters, The Parsonage, Uffculme, Cullompton, Devon, house sale, Wellington Salerooms, 6 May, 1987, lot 169

Lot Essay

The crest is that of Hamilton, almost certainly for Gustavus, 6th Viscount Boyne and, in the Irish peerage, Baron Hamilton of Stackallen, co. Meath (1777-1855).

The 6th Viscount married Harriet, only daughter and heiress of Benjamin Baugh, of Burwarton House, Shropshire. He entered the British army at an early age, saw active service in Flanders during the war between England and France, and was held prisoner for several years at Verdun. He succeeded to the peerage upon the death of his father, the 5th Viscount, in 1816, one year prior to the manufacture of this tea and coffee service (Illustrated London News, April 7, 1855).

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