Lot 115
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A GEORGE III TWO-HANDLED VASE-SHAPED TEA URN, on four shell and lion's paw feet and with beaded, berried foliage and rosette handles each terminating in double serpents and with fluted everted rim, plain liner and domed cover with detachable pine cone finial, with reeded and lion's mask spigot and ivory tap, engraved with a coat-of-arms, by Paul Storr, 1809

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A GEORGE III TWO-HANDLED VASE-SHAPED TEA URN, on four shell and lion's paw feet and with beaded, berried foliage and rosette handles each terminating in double serpents and with fluted everted rim, plain liner and domed cover with detachable pine cone finial, with reeded and lion's mask spigot and ivory tap, engraved with a coat-of-arms, by Paul Storr, 1809
19in. (48cm.) high
(gross 231ozs.)

The arms are those of Pender, Scotland

Lot Essay

A tea urn of the same design, by Paul Storr, 1809, made for Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, is now in the Al-Tajir Collection and is illustrated in J. Hawkins, Masterpieces of English and European Silver and Gold, 1979, p.49 and exhibited at Christie's, The Glory of the Goldsmith, 1990, no. 128

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