A FINE GEORGE III SILVER SOUP TUREEN, COVER AND LINER ON STAND FROM THE ORMONDE SERVICE

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A FINE GEORGE III SILVER SOUP TUREEN, COVER AND LINER ON STAND FROM THE ORMONDE SERVICE
LONDON, 1808, MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL STORR

Of oval form, raised on four scroll feet terminating in stylized shell supports, the body with deep gadrooning rising to an applied reeded mid-band, with two reeded handles applied with rocaille scrolls and shells issuing from lion's masks, the rim gadrooned with anthemion at intervals, the domed cover chased with a band of gadrooning and applied with a band of pearls, surmounted by a heraldic crest finial; the oval stand on four paw and honeysuckle feet, the gadrooned rim with acanthus scrolls and water leaves as handles, the field raised with a band of dentilation, with removable plain liner, the cover, body and stand each engraved twice with Earl's armorials in front of ermine mantling, the liner engraved twice with a crest and Earl's coronet, marked on stand, tureen, liner, cover, and finial--length of stand 19in.(48.2cm.)
(337oz.)

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The arms are those of Butler enclosed by the Order of St. Patrick accole with the same arms with those pf Price-Clarke on an escutcheon of pretence, for Walter Butler, 18th Earl of Ormonde, born 1770. He married in 1805 Anna Maria Catherine, heiress to her brother, Godfrey T.R. Price-Clarke and only daughter and heiress of Job Hart Price-Clarke of Sutton Hall, Derbyshire.

In 1811 he was granted by Parliament 216,00 in exchange for the resumption by thye Crown of the hereditary presage of wines granted to the Butler family in 1327. Barrington, in his Personal Sketches described him thus: "As engaging a person, as many manly qualities, and to the full as much intellectual promise, as any young man of his country," but these were "either blunted by dissipation or absorbed in the licentious influence of a fashionable connection." (vol. I, pp. 222-227)

An identical soup tureen from the same set was sold in these Rooms April 18, 1989, lot 428. In addition to the following lot, pieces from the Ormonde Service are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Brighton Pavilion, and the Bowes Castle Museum, Northumberland.