Live Auction 2209Important Silver and Objects of Vertu Including the Inventory of Marks Antiques of London
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Lot 135 PROPERTY FROM THE TOMPKINS FAMILY

A FINE EARLY VICTORIAN SILVER BUTTER COOLER ON STAND

MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1837

Closed22 October 2009

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A FINE EARLY VICTORIAN SILVER BUTTER COOLER ON STAND
MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1837
The circular stand on scroll feet, the flared cylindrical cooler with scroll border, each pierced with trellis and quatrefoil, with rococo scroll cover, fitted with later silver-gilt liner, the stand and cooler base engraved with script monogram AAR, marked on stand, cooler and cover
The stand 8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) diameter; 54 oz. (1,684 gr.)

Specialist note

The quatrefoil trellis pattern and rococo flourishes of this cooler recall examples of 18th century French silver. The most relevant English object of this type is the Ashburnham Centerpiece, produced by Nicholas Sprimont in 1747 and now in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Storr would certainly have been familiar with the Ashburnham centerpiece, as he was commissioned in 1836/37 to make a large silver dinner service for the 4th Earl of Ashburnham. Also dating to 1837 is Storr's silver-gilt bottle stand of trellis pattern punctuated with rounded quatrefoils. This bottle stand sold from The Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Christie's, New York, 20 October 1999, lot 209.