Lot 145
  • 145

A Pair of George IV Silver Soup Tureens, Covers and Liners, Paul Storr, London, 1831-32

Estimate
100,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • marked on tureens, covers, liners and one finial, numbered 1,2 throughout, bases of tureens stamped STORR & MORTIMER 116
  • Silver
  • length over handles 17 3/8 in.
  • 44.1cm
both bombé oval, applied with boldly gadrooned rim with shells flanked by leaves and leaf-tips at intervals, engraved on one side with arms and supporters beneath an earl's coronet, the reeded loop handles springing from lion heads and centered by leaves and shells, raised on four pau feet headed by acanthus, the conforming domed cover engraved with crest and coronet, fully modeled pomegranate finial, removable liners with shell handles

Provenance

The arms are those of Howard impaling Leveson-Gower for Henry Charles Howard, Earl of Surrey (1791-1856), who succeeded in 1842 as 13th Duke of Norfolk, and his wife Charlotte Sophia, daughter of the 1st Duke of Sutherland.

Literature

J.M. Robinson, "Carlton and the Stapletons: The History of a Recusant Family," The Connoisseur, vol. 202, September 1979, p. 19.

Catalogue Note

In 1829 the Earl of Surrey was elected to the House of Commons for Horsham, the first Roman Catholic to sit in the House after Catholic emancipation.  He represented Horsham until 1832, then West Sussex 1832-41.  Made a member of the Privy Council in 1837, he served as Treasurer of the Household 1837-41, Master of the Horse 1846-54, and Lord Steward 1853-54.  He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1848.  His wife served as a Lady of the Bedchamber 1842-43.  These tureens later passed to Carlton Towers, one of the Norfolk properties through the mother of the 17th Duke.