Ellis Finch
Head of Knightsbridge Silver Department
Lot 48
A William IV silver-gilt two-handled vase by Paul Storr, London 1831, also stamped 'STORR & MORTIMER'
21 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £20,625 inc. premium
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Michael Moorcroft
Consultant
A William IV silver-gilt two-handled vase
by Paul Storr, London 1831, also stamped 'STORR & MORTIMER'
Campana shape styled on the Warwick vase, with a hanging rim of fruiting vine, the stippled body, modelled with an arrangement of eight horse heads in relief over drapes of sheaves of barley, all above the bellied lower body, on a square pedestal foot, on an ebonised wood and brass plinth, two sides applied with relief plaques of horses, by John Samuel Hunt, London 1844, height without plinth 26cm, weight 118oz.
Campana shape styled on the Warwick vase, with a hanging rim of fruiting vine, the stippled body, modelled with an arrangement of eight horse heads in relief over drapes of sheaves of barley, all above the bellied lower body, on a square pedestal foot, on an ebonised wood and brass plinth, two sides applied with relief plaques of horses, by John Samuel Hunt, London 1844, height without plinth 26cm, weight 118oz.
Footnotes
Provenance:
Morphet & Morphet, Harrogate, 27th February 1974, lot 188.
A cup/vase of the same design, and also by Paul Storr, is illustrated in Penzer, N M, 'Paul Storr: The last of the Goldsmiths', London 1954, p.216, plate LXIX, titled The Ascot Cup.