A SET OF SIX GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT SALT-CELLARS

MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1826

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A SET OF SIX GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT SALT-CELLARS
MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1826
In the William III style, each bombé circular on reeded foot and with fluted sides, engraved with a crest, marked underneath
3¼ in. (9 cm.) diameter
24 oz. (735 gr.)

Provenance

Jonathan Peel, M.P. (1799-1879), by descent to his daughter,
Alice Peel (1831-1903), who married Sir Robert Morier (1826-1893) in 1861, by descent to their granddaughter,
The Hon. Mrs. Francis Cunnack (1906-1994).
The Hon. Mrs. F. H. Cunnack; Christie's London, 13 December 1961, lot 42.
Anonymous Sale; Christie's, London, 12 June 2006, lot 69.

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Lot Essay

The crest is that of Peel, for Jonathan Peel, MP (1799-1879) and the fifth son of Sir Robert Peel, 1st Bt. (1750-1830), the cotton manufacturer, and his wife Ellen Yates (d.1803). His brother was the Politician Sir Robert Peel. Jonathan himself was an accomplished soldier and later a politician, representing Norwich as a Tory in 1826 and later Huntingdon. He served as surveyor-general of the ordnance during his brother's second term as Prime Minister as well as minister for war and as a member of the cabinet during the second term of Lord Derby. In March 1824, Peel married Lady Alicia Jane (1887), the youngest daughter of Archibald Kennedy, 1st Marquess of Ailsa.

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