A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT COMPOSITE THREE-PIECE COFFEE SERVICE

細節

A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT COMPOSITE THREE-PIECE COFFEE SERVICE
maker's mark of Paul Storr, London, 1811, the engraving attributed to Walter Jackson

Comprising a coffee jug, stand and lamp, sugar bowl and cream jug, the stand on shaped-triangular base and with partly-fluted circular lamp, the frame on three leaf-capped lion's-paw feet with gadrooned borders and with three drop ring handles, the vase-shaped coffee jug cast and chased with a band of anthemion ornament on a matted ground and with gadrooned and guilloche borders, with ivory handle with winged serpent terminals and hinged cover with bud finial, cast beneath the curved lip with anthemion ornament, the vase-shaped sugar bowl and cream jug each on square base with spreading circular foot and with gadrooned rim, each applied with four grotesque serpent-wreathed male masks, the cream jug with palm and shell scroll handle, each engraved with the Royal arms, the stand and lamp with the Royal crest within the Garter motto beneath the Royal Crown, the coffee jug, stand and sugar bowl each further engraved under the base with the Cholmondeley crest beneath an Earl's coronet, marked under bases, on coffee jug cover, stand, lamp and lamp cover, each stamped 'RUNDELL BRIDGE ET RUNDELL AURFICIES REGIS ET PRINCIPIS WALLIAE LONDINI FECERUNT' and with the registration number 429
The coffee jug 12in. (30cm.) high; 6in. (15.2cm.) wide
The sugar bowl 4in. (10cm.) high; 6 5/8in. (6.7cm.) wide
The cream jug 4 7/8in. (12.5cm.) high; 6 7/8in. (17.5cm.) wide
gross 104ozs. (3,262grs.)

來源

King George III (1760-1820)
Almost certainly given to George, 4th Earl of Cholmodeley (1749-1827) in 1812, on his appointment as Lord Steward of the Household

拍品專文

The Royal arms are those of King George III (1760-1820)

The crest is that of George James, 4th Earl of Cholmondeley (1749-1827), later created 1st Earl of Rocksavage and 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley in 1819. He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1822. It is likely that he was given this coffee service on his appointment as Lord Steward of the Household in 1812, a post he held until 1821. His wife Georgina Charlotte (1764-1838), second daughter of Peregrine, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, was co-heir of the office of Great Chamberlain of England

This remarkable vase-shaped service is designed in the early 19th Century antique style after the French manner popularised by C. Percier and P. Fontaine in their Receuil de Décorations Intérieurs, published in 1801. The design, particularly of the coffee jug, was one of the most popular that the Royal Goldsmiths Rundell, Bridge and Rundell supplied. One of their most talented designers, Jean-Jacques Boileau executed a design for a similar coffee jug now in the Victoria and Albert Museum. A similar tea service with applied Medusa masks by Paul Storr, London 1812, was sold in these Rooms, 13 May 1925, lot 23