Lot 135
Auction: 23 November 2008 at 15:00 GMT
£5,250
Description
A George IV three-piece silver-gilt tea service
Paul Storr, London 1828-29
additionally stamped ‘Storr & Mortimer’, comprising: a teapot, a milk jug, a twin-handled sugar bowl, the bellied bodies with embossed and chased borders of shell and fluting, with scalloped everted shell detailed rims, the lower border of rushes, the central vacant border engraved with scroll-form cartouche with stag’s head facing with shell surmounting, the teapot with domed fluted shell detailed cover with conch shell finial, the S-scroll handles formed as serpents rising from rushes (3)
teapot 18cm high, combined weight 56oz
Paul Storr, London 1828-29
additionally stamped ‘Storr & Mortimer’, comprising: a teapot, a milk jug, a twin-handled sugar bowl, the bellied bodies with embossed and chased borders of shell and fluting, with scalloped everted shell detailed rims, the lower border of rushes, the central vacant border engraved with scroll-form cartouche with stag’s head facing with shell surmounting, the teapot with domed fluted shell detailed cover with conch shell finial, the S-scroll handles formed as serpents rising from rushes (3)
teapot 18cm high, combined weight 56oz
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