A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER WINE COOLERS

细节

A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER WINE COOLERS
MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1798

Plain, slightly tapering cylindrical, applied with bands of reeding and each with two D-shaped handles, with removable reeded collars and liners, marked under bases and on collars and liners--8in. (20.2cm.) high
(126oz., 3932gr.) (2)

来源

Christie's, London, December 9, 1913, lot 79
Tristan J.M. Argenti, Parke Bernet, New York, December 10, 1948, lot 148
Morrie A. Moss, Memphis, Tennessee

出版

Morrie A. Moss, The Lillian and Morrie Moss Collection of Paul Storr Silver, 1972, p. 66, pl. 6.

拍品专文

A similar pair of wine coolers by John Scofield, 1789, was sold by Christie's, London, June 26, 1960. The same model was used by Storr for a pair made for the Earl of Powis and hallmarked 1794, sold Sotheby's, London, July 4, 1968, another pair, made for the Earl of Guildford in 1795, sold Sotheby's, London, July 10, 1990, lot 332, and a pair of 1797 with the coronet and initial of the 10th Duke of Somerset, sold Christie's, New York, October 26, 1982, lot 531. The same model was also made in Sheffield plate: a pair of examples engraved with the arms of Cluny McPherson of circa 1800 is in the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama (Bequest of Frances Oliver Estate, 1972, 246).