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THE BOWL, STEM AND HORSES WITH MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1836 THE BASE WITH MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1844
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A MASSIVE VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT CENTREPIECE
THE BOWL, STEM AND HORSES WITH MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1836 THE BASE WITH MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1844
The triangular base on six ball feet, with three cast prancing horses surrounding the central stem cast as a tree trunk and foliage, with a plain circular bowl, marked on base, under bowl, on stem and on horses, the base further stamped 'HUNT & ROSKELL LATE STORR MORTIMER & HUNT' and numbered '1971'
23½ in. (59.5 cm.) high
gross weight 587 oz. (18,273 gr.)
THE BOWL, STEM AND HORSES WITH MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1836 THE BASE WITH MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1844
The triangular base on six ball feet, with three cast prancing horses surrounding the central stem cast as a tree trunk and foliage, with a plain circular bowl, marked on base, under bowl, on stem and on horses, the base further stamped 'HUNT & ROSKELL LATE STORR MORTIMER & HUNT' and numbered '1971'
23½ in. (59.5 cm.) high
gross weight 587 oz. (18,273 gr.)
Provenance
Lillian and Morrie Moss, Memphis, Tennessee, by 1972.
Literature
M. Moss, The Lillian and Morrie Moss Collection of Paul Storr Silver, Miami, 1972, pl. 70.
J. B. Hawkins, Masterpieces of English and European Silver and Gold, Sydney, 1979, pp. 58-59.
J. B. Hawkins, The Al-Tajir Collection of Silver and Gold, London, 1983, vol. I, pp. 184-185.
The Glory of the Goldsmith, Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, 1989, p. 218.
J. B. Hawkins, Masterpieces of English and European Silver and Gold, Sydney, 1979, pp. 58-59.
J. B. Hawkins, The Al-Tajir Collection of Silver and Gold, London, 1983, vol. I, pp. 184-185.
The Glory of the Goldsmith, Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, 1989, p. 218.
Exhibited
Sydney, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Masterpieces of English and European Silver and Gold, January, 1980, no. 20.
London, Christie's, The Glory of the Goldsmith, Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, 1989, no. 169.
London, Christie's, The Glory of the Goldsmith, Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, 1989, no. 169.
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