Property of an Important West Coast Collection
A Pair of Victorian Silver Standing Cups and Covers after Paul Storr, J.B. Carrington & Co., London, 1900
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October 18, 10:40 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Pair of Victorian Silver Standing Cups and Covers after Paul Storr, J.B. Carrington & Co., London, 1900
in Renaissance taste, campana-shaped bodies chased with foliage and spiraled flutes and applied with female masks, bracketed bluster stem also applied with masks, the finials formed as seated cupids, marked on rim of bases and covers and signed Carrington & Co, London, 130 Regent St
75 oz
2332 g
height 14 1/8 in.
36 cm
David Orgell, Beverly Hills, Ca.
These cups are copied from a pair by Paul Storr 1833 in the collection of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, gift of the Rt. Hon. Lord Alverston G.C.M.G., Lord Chief Justice of England, Prime Warden 1893 and 1899, illustrated in N.M. Penzer, Paul Storr, the Last of the Goldsmiths, 1954. They are also described in J.B. Carrington and G.R. Hughes, The Plate of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths Oxford, 1926. Note that the first of these authors is the silversmith whose company marked the present cups. John Bodman Carrington was himself Prime Warden in 1903/4.
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