Live Auction 2349Important Silver Including The Stuart Collection of Magnificent Regency Silver
A REGENCY SILVER DESSERT STAND
Lot 106

A REGENCY SILVER DESSERT STAND

MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1813

Closed19 October 2010

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A REGENCY SILVER DESSERT STAND
MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1813
On incurved triangular base, with three sea-god masks with applied fruit festoons between, the stem formed as three maenads with ribbon-tied thyrsi between, supporting on their heads a detachable basket, with pierced grapevine border, marked on base and three nuts, frame, two calyx, thyrsi, upper frame, and basket
13 in. (33 oz.) high; 123 oz. 10 dwt. (3,850 gr.)

Specialist note

Rundell's album of designs at the Victoria and Albert Museum includes a centerpiece of this model, attributed to E.H. Baily after a design by Thomas Stothard. A pair of silver-gilt dessert stands of 1810-11, also with bacchic figures set between crossed thyrsi, formed part of the Duke of Wellington's Ambassadorial Service and remains at Apsley House (illustrated in N.M. Penzer, Paul Storr: The Last of the Goldsmiths, 1954, pl. XXXIII, p. 144). Three silver-gilt dessert stands and a centerpiece with scroll candle branches by Paul Storr of this type are illustrated in M. Moss, The Lillian and Morrie Moss Collection of Paul Storr Silver, 1972, pl. 65-66, pp. 128-29. A garniture consisting of three dessert stands with large mirror plateau, produced by Paul Storr in 1810, is illustrated in The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, 1989, no. 131, p. 170.

Photo caption:
Design for a centerpiece attributed to E.H. Baily, after a design by Thomas Stothard
Courtesy Board of Trustees of the Victoria & Albert Museum