Details
A George III silver dessert stand and cover
Maker's mark of Paul Storr, London, 1808
On shaped triangular base, the stem formed as three classical female caryatid figures, their outstretched arms each holding a floral wreath, with central palmette column stem, the shallow bowl with detachable liner with shell bracket handles, the slightly domed cover with bud finial and anthemion and acanthus foliage calyx, with guilloche, Vitruvian scroll and foliage borders, the liner engraved with the Royal crest within Garter motto and with Royal Ducal Crown above, the dish and cover later engraved with a coat-of-arms and a crest within a motto, marked on base, stem, two figures, dish holder, dish, cover and finial
11½in. (29.5cm.) high
120oz. (4,014gr.)
Provenance
The Collection of Old English Silver of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries formed by the Late John Edward Taylor Esq., of 20 Kensington Palace Gardens; Christie's London, 11 July 1912, lot 177, a pair (£211 to Devereux)
Pierpoint Morgan (1837-1913) and thence by descent to his son
John Pierpoint Morgan (d.1943)
The Morgan Collection; Christie's New York, 26 October 1982, lot 18
Literature
J. Starkie Gardner, Old Silver-Work Chiefly English from the XVth to the XVIIth Centuries, Loan Collection Exhibition, 1902, London, 1903, p.173
N. Penzer, Paul Storr, London, 1971, p. 256, item 1
A. Phillips and J. Sloane, Antiquity Revisited: English and French Silver-Gilt from the Collection of Audrey Love, London, 1997, pp. 8-9 illustrated
Exhibited
London, St. James's Court Exhibition, 1902, case Q, no. 1 and 2
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.
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