MARK OF PHILIP RUNDELL, LONDON, 1820

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A FINE GEORGE IV SILVER SOUP TUREEN AND COVER*
Mark of Philip Rundell, London, 1820
In antique taste; shaped circular on a square base with interlace border, with lobed lower body, the upper body with relief border of lions, scrolling foliage and winged bearers of fruit, with fluted and beaded handles, the cover cast with acanthus, lotus and palmettes with acanthus bud finial, with detachable liner, the base engraved with a crest, marked on cover, finial, liner, and under base, base stamped Rundell Bridge et Rundell Aurifices Regis Londini, with later French control marks
12½in. (31.7cm.) high; 222oz. 10dwt. (6928gr.) (3)

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Lot Essay

This soup tureen matches a pair of tureens with stands belonging to the Sutton Service, marked Philip Rundell, London, 1820, sold Christie's, London, March 31, 1976, and illustrated in Michael Clayton, Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver, 1985, no. 252.

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