Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
Property of an Important West Coast Collection
A William IV Silver Coffee Pot, Paul Storr, London, 1836
Lot Closed
October 17, 07:14 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A William IV Silver Coffee Pot, Paul Storr, London, 1836
of baluster form finely chased with swags of flowers and grapes on matted ground with areas of diaper and scalework, fluted swan-neck spout wrapped with trailing flowers, flower finial, marked on base, cover and handle, and finial, the base stamped Green Ward Green
45 oz gross
1399 g
height 10 ¾ in.
27.4 cm
The Lillian and Morrie Moss Collection of Paul Storr Silver, cat. p. 224-5, pl.161
The firm of Green, Ward, and Green moved to 20 Cockspur Street, Pall Mall in 1829, and were supplied by different makers, including Paul Storr (a cup and cover 1799), Benjamin Smith, James Charles Edington, and John Tapley. See John Culme, The Directory of Gold & Silversmiths, 1987, Vol. I, pp. 194-5.
The arms are those of Chute quartering Wiggett and impaling Buckworth for William Lyde Wiggett-Chute of the Vyne, Basingstoke, J.P. High Sheriff 1832 and M.P. for Norfolk and his wife Martha 2nd daughter of Theopilus Russell Buckworth of Cockley-Cley Hall, Norfolk, m. 1837. He died in 1879 and she in 1888.
The Vyne is now a National Trust property. The Basingstoke Trophy, won by Edward Chute, a chinoiserie Monteith Bowl 1688, from the Vyne, London, was sold from the Jaime Ortiz-Patino collection, Sotheby’s, New York, May 21, 1992, lot 135 ($517,000).