MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1813

細節

A FINE REGENCY SILVER COVERED BACON DISH WITH TWO LINERS
Maker's mark of Paul Storr, London, 1813
Oblong, on four paw supports with leaf-clad bracket handles, the detachable liner with gadrooned rim and shells at intervals, the second liner with tab scroll handles, the domed cover with gadrooned border and foliate calyx handle, engraved on base and cover with a crest beneath a Duke's coronet, fully marked, also stamped 1046
12¾in. long over handles, (32.5cm.); 74oz. (2305gr.)

來源

Alexander, 10th Duke of Hamilton and Brandon (1767-1852)
His Grace the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, Sotheby's London, July 14, 1988, lot 147

展覽

Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, English Regency Silver from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, February-June 1995, no. 45

拍品專文

The crest is that of Hamilton for Alexander, 10th Duke of Hamilton, the premier peer in the Peerage of Scotland and Hereditary Keeper of Holyrood House. His early travels in Italy instilled in him a great love of art and he became a prodigious collector. He entered politics in 1802, as a Whig, but as it was remarked in an obituary notice "timidity and variableness of temperament prevented his rendering much service to, or being much relied on, by his party . . . with a great predisposition to over-estimate the importance of ancient birth . . . he well deserved to be considered the proudest man in England" (Complete Peerage). On the accession of the Whigs to power in 1806, the 10th Duke was made Ambassador to the Court of St. Petersburg, and a large service of official plate was granted to him in that year. Bearing the Hamilton crest and Royal armorials, the Storr ambassadorial service comprised some 278 pieces, and was dispersed by Christie's, London, November 4, 1919.

The Duke of Hamilton was appointed a Knight of the Garter in 1836 and was Lord High Steward at the coronations of William IV and Queen Victoria. He married in 1810 Susan Euphemia, daughter and heir of William Beckford, described as "one of the handsomest women of her time" (Lord Malmesbury, Memoirs of an ex-Minister, 1855, p.487).

Lord Lamington in The Days of the Dandies wrote of the Duke: "Never was such a magnifico as the 10th Duke, the Ambassador to Empress Catherine; when I knew him he was very old but held himself straight as any Grenadier. He was always dressed in military laced undress coat, tights and Hessian boots &c."