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A PAIR OF GEORGE III WINE-COOLERS FROM THE PORTMAN SERVICE
MARK OF PAUL STORR LONDON, 1811
Each campana shaped on spreading circular gadrooned foot, the lower part of the bodies chased with flutes and with two reeded lion's mask bracket handles, applied beneath the fluted lip with a band of anthemion, and in the centre with a coat-of-arms, the collars and plain liners engraved with crests, marked on bodies, collars and liners
10 1/8 in. (25.8 cm.) high
301 oz. 17 dwt. (7,332 gr.)
The arms are those of Portman quartering Berkeley impaling Hulse quartering Lethieullier, for Edward Berkeley Portman (1771-1823) and his second wife Mary, eldest daughter of Sir Edward Hulse Bt., whom he married in 1816.
Provenance
Edward Berkeley Portman (1771-1823).
The Lillian and Morrie Moss Collection, Memphis, Tennessee, by 1973.
President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines (1917-1989) and Mrs. Imelda Marcos (b.1929),
The Republic of the Philippines, Presidential Commission for Good Government; Christie’s, New York, 10 January 1991, lot 43.
Literature
M. A. Moss, The Lillian and Morrie Moss Collection of Paul Storr Silver, Miami, 1973, p. 154, p. 97
Details
A PAIR OF GEORGE III WINE-COOLERS FROM THE PORTMAN SERVICE
MARK OF PAUL STORR LONDON, 1811
Each campana shaped on spreading circular gadrooned foot, the lower part of the bodies chased with flutes and with two reeded lion's mask bracket handles, applied beneath the fluted lip with a band of anthemion, and in the centre with a coat-of-arms, the collars and plain liners engraved with crests, marked on bodies, collars and liners
10 1/8 in. (25.8 cm.) high
301 oz. 17 dwt. (7,332 gr.)
The arms are those of Portman quartering Berkeley impaling Hulse quartering Lethieullier, for Edward Berkeley Portman (1771-1823) and his second wife Mary, eldest daughter of Sir Edward Hulse Bt., whom he married in 1816.
Provenance
Edward Berkeley Portman (1771-1823).
The Lillian and Morrie Moss Collection, Memphis, Tennessee, by 1973.
President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines (1917-1989) and Mrs. Imelda Marcos (b.1929),
The Republic of the Philippines, Presidential Commission for Good Government; Christie’s, New York, 10 January 1991, lot 43.
Literature
M. A. Moss, The Lillian and Morrie Moss Collection of Paul Storr Silver, Miami, 1973, p. 154, p. 97
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