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A WILLIAM IV TWO-HANDLED SILVER-GILT VASE, on plain square base, the body of shaped outline with applied horses heads and foliage, with rising foliage handles and everted tongue and dart border, engraved 'NORTHALLERTON MEETING, 1837', with the names of the stewards and beneath the foot 'BEESWING', by Paul Storr, 1837, also stamped, '268 Storr & Mortimer', on gilt-wood plinth, in fitted wood case
9¼in. (23.5cm.) high
(96ozs.)
A similar, but slightly larger vase, also by Paul Storr, 1825 or 1826, is illustrated in N. M. Penzer, Paul Storr, The Last of the Goldsmiths, London, 1954, pl. LXIX. Eminently suitable for a race prize, with the frieze of horses' heads, it was presented as the Ascot Cup, on Ascot Heath in 1827. It is now in the Art Institute of Chicago.
9¼in. (23.5cm.) high
(96ozs.)
A similar, but slightly larger vase, also by Paul Storr, 1825 or 1826, is illustrated in N. M. Penzer, Paul Storr, The Last of the Goldsmiths, London, 1954, pl. LXIX. Eminently suitable for a race prize, with the frieze of horses' heads, it was presented as the Ascot Cup, on Ascot Heath in 1827. It is now in the Art Institute of Chicago.