A GEORGE III SILVER WARWICK VASE AND PLINTH
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A GEORGE III SILVER WARWICK VASE AND PLINTH

MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1812

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A GEORGE III SILVER WARWICK VASE AND PLINTH
MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1812
In the form of the Warwick vase, on square base, with detachable collar and liner, the square plinth on four fluted bracket feet, with chased acanthus and clover borders, engraved with a presentation inscription, a Viscount's accolé arms, two panels of military trophies, the vase stamped with the Latin signature of Rundell Bridge and Rundell, marked on stand, vase, collar and liner
20¼ in. (51.5 cm.) high; 394 oz. 10 dwt. (12,277 gr.)
來源
Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757-1833)
Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1973, lot 133
The Rt. Hon. the Viscount Exmouth, sold Christie's, London, 12 December 1983, lot 178
出版
Vanessa Brett, The Sotheby's Directory of Silver: 1600-1940, 1986, p. 254, illus. no. 1147
Christie's Review of the Season 1984
Michael Clayton, Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver, 1985, p. 230
The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, 1989, illus. no. 133, pp. 172-73
Edward Osler, The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth, 1835
展覽
"The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection," London, 1989, no. 133

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The arms are those of Pellew, for Edward, 1st Viscount Exmouth, accolé with the same arms impaling those of Frowde, for his wife, Susan, daughter of James Frowde of Knowle, Wiltshire.

In 1814 Admiral Pellew was elevated to the peerage and "received a handsome compliment from the officers of the Mediterranean fleet. It is a beautiful model of the Warwick vase, executed by Messrs. Rundel & Bridge, at a cost of 580 guineas, and bears the following inscription:- 'Presented to the Right Honourable Admiral Lord Exmouth, &c, &c, &c, as a mark of their respect and esteem, by the officers who served under his Lordship's command in the Mediterranean." (Edward Osler, The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth, 1854, p. 188)

Viscount Exmouth joined the navy at the age of thirteen, and served his country in the American War of Independence and the Napoleonic Wars. He was made Commander-in-Chief of British naval forces in the Mediterranean in 1811, a position in which he was responsible for defending British commerce in the region from Napoleon's southern empire. Osler recalls his ascent in the navy with reverence, "the success which he achieved by merit alone is most encouraging to all who must rise by their own deserts." (p. v.)