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A REGENCY SILVER MEAT PLATTER, PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1818

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October 20, 02:33 PM GMT

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A REGENCY SILVER MEAT PLATTER, PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1818


oval, the gadroon border with palmettes at angles, engraved twice with contemporary arms, supporters and motto

marked on back of rim and numbered 434

82 oz

2550 g

length 19½ in.

49.5 cm

Christie's, New York, October 23, 2013, lot 31

The arms are those of Portman quartering Berkeley and impaling those of Hulse, for Edward Berkeley Portman (1771-1823) of Bryanston House, Dorset and Orchard Portman, Somerset. He married secondly, in 1816 Mary, eldest daughter of Sir Edward Hulse, bart. The platter presumably passed to his son of the same name, created 1st Viscount Portman in 1873.