MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1809-1813

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A GEORGE III SILVER EIGHT-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE**
Mark of Paul Storr, London, 1809-1813
En suite with the preceding, comprising a kettle on stand, coffee pot on stand with burner, teapot, teapot stand, two open sugar bowls and two cream jugs; each with circular body with gadrooned borders, the pots with ivory handles, the others with snake-form handles, the kettle raised on a plinth base, and with interior Sheffield-plated heating cylinder, each engraved with a coat-of-arms and motto within foliate mantling and a crest, marked under base of kettle, teapot and teapot stand, on kettle cover, collar and cover of heating unit, on body of cream jugs, sugar bowls, and coffee pot, under coffee pot cover, on coffee pot stand, burner and burner cover
The kettle on stand 14½in. (36.8cm.) high, the coffee pot on stand 11¼in. (28.5cm.) high; 325oz. (10112gr.) gross weight (excluding heating unit) (8)

Provenance

S.J. Shrubsole, New York, June 1965

Special notice

Notice Regarding the Sale of Ivory and Tortoiseshell Prospective purchasers are advised that several countries prohibit the importation of property containing ivory or tortoiseshell. Accordingly, prospective purchasers should familiarize themselves with relevant customs regulations prior to bidding if they intend to import this lot into another country.

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Starkie quartering Farington and impaling those of Gwillym of Langstone, Hertfordshire, as borne by Le Gendre Starkie of Huntroyde near Burnley in Lancashire (1790-1822) and his wife Elizabeth, 2nd daughter of Richard Atherton Gwillym of Bewsey. They were married May 12, 1814.

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