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    Sale 1422

    IMPORTANT SILVER, OBJECTS OF VERTU AND RUSSIAN WORKS OF ART

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    19 October 2004

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    • A FINE PAIR OF REGENCY SILVER
    Lot 1005

    A FINE PAIR OF REGENCY SILVER WINE COOLERS

    MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1816

    Price realised

    USD 77,675

    Estimate

    USD 60,000 - USD 80,000

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    A FINE PAIR OF REGENCY SILVER WINE COOLERS
    MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1816
    Each urn form, on four paw feet with acanthus joins, the body with vertical fluting, the handles formed as branches with oak leaves and acorns, with a detachable gadrooned collar with shells at intervals and liner, the body engraved with a coat-of-arms and motto, the collars and liners engraved with a crest, each marked under base, collar, and liner
    8½ in. (21.7 cm.) high; 211 oz. 10 dwt. (6577 gr.) (2)

    Provenance

    Estate of Carl Fleischmann Holmes, Christie's, New York, 22 October 1984, lot 183

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    Lot Essay

    The arms are those of Menteath, Kerse, Co. Stirling.

    These wine coolers are a variation upon one of the most well known Regency silver designs. Of fluted bombé form and applied with oak leaves and acorns, the design is attributed to Edward Hodges Bailey, who worked for the Royal goldsmiths, Rundell Bridge and Rundell. A drawing for a soup tureen from Rundell's design book is in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

    This pattern is most commonly associated with Harriot Mellon, Duchess of St. Albans, the actress and wife of banker Thomas Coutts who amassed one of the largest silver collections of the Regency era. Two soup tureens from the St. Albans service are illustrated in The Lillian and Morrie Moss Collection of Paul Storr Silver, 1972, p. 132, pl. 68.

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