A GEORGE III SILVER EIGHT-BOTTLE CRUET STAND

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A GEORGE III SILVER EIGHT-BOTTLE CRUET STAND
LONDON, 1799, MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL STORR

Of navette-shaped form, raised on fluted batswing bracket feet, with a reeded rim and scrolling leaf-clad handles, the raised oval field supporting eight molded bottle rings on four fluted legs with paw feet, centering a straight handle with batswing fluting and an open finial, with two large and four small cut glass bottles and two urn-form cut glass condiment vases, all with silver mounts, the vases each with a condiment ladle, the field engraved with coat of arms, two crests and a motto, the vase covers and condiment spoons engraved with the same crests, marked under base, on handle, on all bottle rims, bottle covers and spoons--15 3/8 in. (39 cm.) long
(37 oz. weighable silver)

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Astell impaling those of Harvey as borne by William Astell of Everton House, Huntingdonsire, born in 1774, who succeeded to the extensive Astell family estates in Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire on the death of his kinsman William Thornton Astell in 1807. He married in 1800 Sarah, only daughter of John Harvey of Ickwell Bury, Bedfordshire. He was M.P. for Bridgwater 1806-1832 and for Bedfordshire 1841-1847 and sometime chairman of the Honourable East India Company.