Live Auction 14226Opulence: Silver, Gold Boxes, 19th Century Furniture & Works of Art
A WILLIAM IV SILVER ASCOS JUG
Lot 108 PROPERTY FROM STANTON COURT, GLOUCESTERSHIRE

A WILLIAM IV SILVER ASCOS JUG

MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1836

Closed6 June 2017

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GBP 6,250

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A WILLIAM IV SILVER ASCOS JUG
MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1836
Modelled as an ascos jug, on plain ring foot, the handle cast with foliage and winged figure, with two cast goat finial, the body with matting engraved with two crests below an earl's coronet, marked near rim, the foot further stamped 'Storr & Mortimer 356'
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high
32 oz. 13 dwt. (1,016 gr.)
The crests are those of McConnell and Kerr as borne by the Earls of Antrim, probably for Hugh, 4th Earl of Antrim (1812-1855).

Specialist note

The ascos jug follows an ancient Greek prototype used as a receptacle for the oil burnt in lamps. Its unusual form is derived from early examples which were fashioned from leather. A number of examples by Paul Storr are known (see M. Clayton, The Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver, Oxford, 1985, p. 256, fig. 3). A similar pair of William IV frosted-glass and silver-mounted ascos jugs with fox finials and vine handles were exhibited London, Asprey, Silver From a Golden Age, 1640-1840, 1994, no. 67.