Lot 172
172
A GEORGE III SILVER TEA KETTLE ON STAND**

MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1808

Details
A GEORGE III SILVER TEA KETTLE ON STAND**
Maker's mark of Paul Storr, London, 1808
Of shaped oblong form, the stand on a shaped-rectangular base supporting an oval lamp, the kettle on lion's paw feet with scroll and acanthus join, the part-fluted body engraved on both sides with a coat-of-arms below a marquess's coronet, with reede spigot terminating in a lion's mask and with carved ivory anthemion tap, with gadrooned shell and scroll rim, the domed cover surmounted by a wrythen bud finial, the overhead handle with double intertwined serpent join, marked on stand, lamp, under kettle and on cover
14in. (36.8cm.) high; gross weight 182oz. 10dwt. (5680gr.)

Lot Essay

The arms are those of O'Callaghan impaling Ormonde for Cornelius, 1st Viscount Lismore of Shanbally, Co. Tipperary (1755-1857) and his wife Eleanor, youngest daughter of John, 17th Earl of Ormonde, whom he married in 1808.

A nearly identical kettle by Storr of the same year was sold at Christie's, New York, February 11, 1982, lot 148.