拍品專文
A further set of twelve plates from the same service from the Le Pavillon Chougny collection were sold Christie's London, 9-10 December 2004, lot 766.
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MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, TEN 1809, TWO 1810
細節
A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER-GILT DINNER-PLATES
MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, TEN 1809, TWO 1810
Shaped circular and with gadrooned and foliage border, each later engraved with a coat-of-arms below baron's coronet, the rim later engraved with a crest within the Garter motto and below marquess' coronet, marked underneath, nine with Rundell's scratched inventory number, in later fitted case
10¼ in. (26 cm.) diameter
254 oz. (7,910 gr.)
The crest is that of Fitzmaurice, presumably for Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne K.G. (1780-1863), who succeeded his half brother in 1809 and was invested as a Knight of the Garter in 1836.
The later arms are those of Pelham quartering Anderson with Simpson in pretence, for Charles, 2nd Baron and later 1st Earl of Yarborough (1781-1846) and his wife Henrietta (d.1813), daughter of the Hon. John Bridgeman Simpson (1763-1850), whom he married in 1806. He was M.P. for Great Grimsby 1803-07 and for Lincolnshire 1807-23. He was best known for his long term as Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron He died on board his yacht Kestrell, off Vigo, Portugal.
MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, TEN 1809, TWO 1810
Shaped circular and with gadrooned and foliage border, each later engraved with a coat-of-arms below baron's coronet, the rim later engraved with a crest within the Garter motto and below marquess' coronet, marked underneath, nine with Rundell's scratched inventory number, in later fitted case
10¼ in. (26 cm.) diameter
254 oz. (7,910 gr.)
The crest is that of Fitzmaurice, presumably for Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne K.G. (1780-1863), who succeeded his half brother in 1809 and was invested as a Knight of the Garter in 1836.
The later arms are those of Pelham quartering Anderson with Simpson in pretence, for Charles, 2nd Baron and later 1st Earl of Yarborough (1781-1846) and his wife Henrietta (d.1813), daughter of the Hon. John Bridgeman Simpson (1763-1850), whom he married in 1806. He was M.P. for Great Grimsby 1803-07 and for Lincolnshire 1807-23. He was best known for his long term as Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron He died on board his yacht Kestrell, off Vigo, Portugal.
來源
A European Collector; Christie's, London, 1 December 2005, lot 366, where acquired.
榮譽呈獻
Adrian Hume-Sayer