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MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1827
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A PAIR OF GEORGE IV SILVER MEAT-DISHES
MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1827
Shaped oval, the border cast as foliage with fruiting grapevines at intervals, engraved with a coat-of-arms, each marked on the back, the backs further stamped 'Storr & Mortimer'
16¼ in. (41 cm.) wide
98 oz. (3,036 gr.)
The arms are those of Kerrison quartering others, almost certainly for General Sir Edward Kerrison 1st Bt. (1774-1853) of Hexne Hall, co. Suffolk. He was a celebrated solider serving under Wellington in the Peninsula Campaign and at Waterloo. He was created a baronet in 1821 and was entitled to use an honourary augmentation in his arms of a sword encircled by a laurel wreath bewteen the medals he received for his conduct at the Battle of Orthes in 1814 and at Waterloo the next year. In 1810 he married Mary, daughter of Alexander Ellice at St. George's Church, Hanover Square, London.
He was succeeded by his son Sir Edward Clarence Kerrison 2nd Bt. (1821-1886), M.P. for Eye and then East Sussex. He married Lady Caroline Margaret Fox-Strangways, daughter of Henry Fox-Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester, in 1844. They had no children and the title became extinct on the death of the 2nd baronet. (2)
MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1827
Shaped oval, the border cast as foliage with fruiting grapevines at intervals, engraved with a coat-of-arms, each marked on the back, the backs further stamped 'Storr & Mortimer'
16¼ in. (41 cm.) wide
98 oz. (3,036 gr.)
The arms are those of Kerrison quartering others, almost certainly for General Sir Edward Kerrison 1st Bt. (1774-1853) of Hexne Hall, co. Suffolk. He was a celebrated solider serving under Wellington in the Peninsula Campaign and at Waterloo. He was created a baronet in 1821 and was entitled to use an honourary augmentation in his arms of a sword encircled by a laurel wreath bewteen the medals he received for his conduct at the Battle of Orthes in 1814 and at Waterloo the next year. In 1810 he married Mary, daughter of Alexander Ellice at St. George's Church, Hanover Square, London.
He was succeeded by his son Sir Edward Clarence Kerrison 2nd Bt. (1821-1886), M.P. for Eye and then East Sussex. He married Lady Caroline Margaret Fox-Strangways, daughter of Henry Fox-Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester, in 1844. They had no children and the title became extinct on the death of the 2nd baronet. (2)
Provenance
Lester R. and Marjorie Alter Cahn; Christie's, New York, 15 October 1985, lot 227.
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