A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT EWER AND STAND
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A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT EWER AND STAND

MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1816

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A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT EWER AND STAND
MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1816
Tapering on spreading foot with ovolo band, the shoulder with band of diaperwork heightened with applied masks, with reeded ivory-insulated handle and egg-and dart-border, the stand similarly decorated and on four cast shell and foliage feet, engraved on the body and stand with a coat-of-arms, marked underneath and near handle, in later fitted case
16¼ in. (41.2 cm.) high
gross weight 113 oz. (3,518 gr.)
The arms are those of Farquhar impaling another. The wife's arms are not recorded as having been granted by the College of Arms.
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Lot Essay

The design of the ewer is in the 'antique' style of the early 19th century as promoted by Thomas Hope (1769-1831) at his mansion/museum in Duchess Street, London. A similar, although plain, ewer is illustrated in David Watkin's 1971 edition of Thomas Hope's, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, London, 1807, pl. XLVII. A pair of ewers, also by Paul Storr, 1816, although without stands, was sold from the collection of Sir Harold Clayton, Christie's, London, 3 June 1935, lot 163.

The trefoil-shaped lip is a typical feature of the Greek, and later Roman, oinochoe. Storr similarly used a Roman model for a pair of ewers illustrated in M. Penzer, Paul Storr, The Last of the Goldsmiths, London, 1954, p. 142, pl. XXXIII. The design is thought to be after Flaxman, the originals being a Roman urceus or lagona. Storr also used the Roman ascos jug form as an inspiration for silver in the first quarter of the 19th century (The Benjamin Edwards Collection, Christie's, New York, 26 January 2010, lot 64).

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