Details
A GEORGE III SILVER SOUP-TUREEN, COVER AND STAND AND A PAIR OF MATCHING SAUCE-TUREENS, COVERS AND STANDS
LONDON, THE SOUP-TUREEN 1807, THE SAUCE-TUREENS 1808, MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL STORR
The oval vase-shaped bodies on rectangular pedestal bases, each raised on four winged lion feet, chased above with bands of tongue-and-dart, the bodies applied under the everted tongue-and-dart rims with a band of fluting and each with two acanthus-clad reeded and lion-mask handles, the domed covers applied with borders of pearls enclosing calices of honeysuckle and tied reeded and lion-mask handles; the boat-shaped stands with tongue-and-dart rims terminating in acanthus and waterleaf scrolls enclosing applied borders of pearls, the soup tureen-stand raised on four massive paw feet flanked by honeysuckle, the sauce-tureens engraved with a later cypher and Princely coronet, the soup-tureen with removable liner, marked on stands, bodies, covers, liner, two handles and five pearl borders, the cover flanges stamped RUNDELL BRIDGE ET RUNDELL AURIFICES REGIS ET PRINCEPIS WALLAE LONDINI FECERUNT -- 21 in. (53.3 cm.), length of soup-tureen stand. 10¼ in. (26 cm.), length of sauce tureen stands (521 oz.)
LONDON, THE SOUP-TUREEN 1807, THE SAUCE-TUREENS 1808, MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL STORR
The oval vase-shaped bodies on rectangular pedestal bases, each raised on four winged lion feet, chased above with bands of tongue-and-dart, the bodies applied under the everted tongue-and-dart rims with a band of fluting and each with two acanthus-clad reeded and lion-mask handles, the domed covers applied with borders of pearls enclosing calices of honeysuckle and tied reeded and lion-mask handles; the boat-shaped stands with tongue-and-dart rims terminating in acanthus and waterleaf scrolls enclosing applied borders of pearls, the soup tureen-stand raised on four massive paw feet flanked by honeysuckle, the sauce-tureens engraved with a later cypher and Princely coronet, the soup-tureen with removable liner, marked on stands, bodies, covers, liner, two handles and five pearl borders, the cover flanges stamped RUNDELL BRIDGE ET RUNDELL AURIFICES REGIS ET PRINCEPIS WALLAE LONDINI FECERUNT -- 21 in. (53.3 cm.), length of soup-tureen stand. 10¼ in. (26 cm.), length of sauce tureen stands (521 oz.)
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, November 30, 1978, lots 47 and 48
A soup tureen by Storr of similar form was sold from the collection of MRs. Fay Plohn, Sotheby's, London, July 16, 1970, lot 143.
A soup tureen by Storr of similar form was sold from the collection of MRs. Fay Plohn, Sotheby's, London, July 16, 1970, lot 143.