A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT DESSERT-STAND

MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1810, RETAILED BY RUNDELL, BRIDGE AND RUNDELL

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A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT DESSERT-STAND
MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1810, RETAILED BY RUNDELL, BRIDGE AND RUNDELL
On incurved triangular base with ovolo border, the stand on three Neptune masks with applied fruit festoons between and with a central applied rosette, the stem formed as three maenads with thyrsi between, supporting on their heads a ring with foliage and flower border, supporting a later plain gilt ring and cut-glass bowl, fully marked except the rosette and the nuts, the base further stamped 'RUNDELL BRIDGE ET RUNDELL AURIFICES REGIS ET PRINCIPIS WALLIAE REGENTIS LONDINI'
16¼ in. (41 cm.) high
171 oz. 12 dwt. (5,338 gr.)

Provenance

The Property of Mr. Carl Holmes of Long Island; Sotheby's, London, 1 February 1968, lot 160, without dish.
with David Orgell, Beverly Hills, 1967.

Literature

W. E. Jones and A. Grimwade; Monumental Silver: Selections from the Gilbert Collection, Los Angeles, 1977, p. 7, no. 26.
T. Schroder, The Gilbert Collection of Gold and Silver, Los Angeles, 1988, no. 105, pp. 382-384.

Exhibited

Los Angeles, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Monumental Silver: The Gilbert Collection, 1974, no. 14.
Los Angeles, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Monumental Silver and Mosaics, 1975.
Los Angeles, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Monumental Silver: Selections from the Gilbert Collection, no. 26.

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Lot Essay

The collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum includes a silver example of 1812, complete with original basket. The Royal Goldsmiths Rundell, Bridge and Rundell produced figural dessert stands with slight variations. Rundell's album of designs at the Victoria and Albert Museum includes a centerpiece, attributed to E. H. Baily after a design by Thomas Stothard, also featuring three bacchic nymphs supporting an openwork basket. It is very likely that both Stothard and Baily were drawing on the works of Percier and Fontaine found in their Recueil de décorations intérieures, published in 1801 and designs by Auguste Moreau and A.L.M. Cavelier created for Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot's 'Madame Mère' service, Paris, 1806.

A pair of silver-gilt dessert stands of 1810-11, also with bacchic figures set between crossed thrysi, formed part of the Duke of Wellington's Ambassadorial Service and remain at Apsley House (illustrated in N. M. Penzer, Paul Storr: The Last of the Goldsmiths, 1954 , pl. XXXIII, p. 144). Three silver-gilt dessert stands and a centerpiece with scroll candle branches of similar design to Wellington's plate by Paul Storr are illustrated in M. Moss, The Lillian and Morrie Moss Collection of Paul Storr Silver, 1972, pl. 65-66, pp. 128-29. A centerpiece consisting of three dessert stands with large mirror-plateau, produced by Paul Storr in 1810 made for Lord Belmore is illustrated in The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, 1989, no. 131, p. 170, sold Christie's, London, 7 June 2011, lot 350.

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