A PAIR OF GEORGE III TWO-HANDLED SILVER SAUCE TUREENS AND COVERS
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III TWO-HANDLED SILVER SAUCE TUREENS AND COVERS

MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1805

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III TWO-HANDLED SILVER SAUCE TUREENS AND COVERS
MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1805
Both circular with gadrooned foot and rim, the body with two reeded handles emerging from lions heads, the cover with a rosette within a beaded border centered by a twisted serpent finial, engraved with a coat-of-arms to the body and a crest to the cover, gilt interiors, marked on flange of cover and foot rim
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) long, over handles
71 oz. 2 dwt. (2,221 gr.)

The Strassburger family, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Note du spécialiste

The coat-of-arms and crest found on the present lot are those of Bolton.

A pair of sauce tureens and covers of nearly identical design and with lion-form finials, formerly in the collection of President John Adams, are illustrated in M. Moss, The Lillian and Morrie Moss Collection of Paul Storr Silver, Miami, 1972, pp. 76-77, plate 16.