A REGENCY SILVER MEAT-DISH

MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1816

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A REGENCY SILVER MEAT-DISH
MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1816
Shaped oval, the reeded rim with fruiting grapevines and baskets of flowers, engraved twice with a coat-of-arms, marked on reverse, also stamped '865'
21¼ in. (54 cm.) long; 94 oz. (2,930 gr.)
The arms are those of Townley-Parker impaling Brooke for Robert Townley-Parker (1793 - 1879) of Cuerdon Hall, Preston and Astley, Lancashire, who married Harriet, daughter of Thomas Brooke of Church Minshall, Cheshire in 1816.

來源

Probably supplied to Robert Townley-Parker (1793 - 1879) and Harriet Brooke of Cuerdon Hall, Preston and Astley, in 1816 on the occasion of their marriage.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 27 February 1974, lot 154.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 5 June 1997, lot 85.

拍品專文

Robert Townley-Parker served as M.P. for Preston, Lancashire, 1837 - 1857, and was High Sheriff of the County in 1817. In 1816, he married Harriet, youngest daughter of Thomas Brooke of Minshall, Cheshire. Upon his death in 1879, the Illustrated London News described Townley-Parker as 'one of the chief proprietors among the landed gentry in the county of Lancaster'.

Cuerden Hall, Lancashire, descended from the Cuerdens and Banasters to the Townley-Parker family, and was remodeled by Robert Townley-Parker in 1816 - 1819. Together with its landscaped park, Cuerden Hall was a significant early contribution to the nineteenth-century Picturesque movement (J. M. Robinson, A Guide to the Country Houses of the North West, 1991, pp. 176 - 177).