Description

An early Victorian silver-gilt bottle stand with an associated green glass hock bottle and stopper
Paul Storr, London, 1837-38
the stand of waisted cylindrical form and on three pierced scroll supports, the matt body finely chased with pierced panels of trellis-work and quatrefoils alternating with bands of flowering foliage, applied with a scrolling cartouche with mirrored cipher ‘H de G’ below a coronet, the bottle decanter with everted rim and tear drop stopper, engraved with the initial H on each side
The stand, 13.4cm high, bottle 32.4cm high. 11oz, weighable silver.
Heraldry:
The monogram and coronet are those of Henrietta Frances, Countess de Grey (1784-1848), fifth daughter of William, 1st Earl of Enniskillen. In 1805 she married Thomas Philip, 2nd Earl de Grey of Wrest Park, who served as Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire, first Lord of the Admiralty from 1834-35 and Yeomanry Aide-de-camp to William IV from 1831 to 1837 and to Queen Victoria from 1837-59.
Provenance:
The Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Christie’s New York, 20th October 1999, lot 209
Important English, Irish and Continental Silver, Sotheby’s, New York, April 16, 1996, lot 234
Literature:
John Culme, Nineteenth Century Silver, London 1977, p.144, where the bottle stand is described as a pastille burner

Footnote

The monogram and coronet are those of Henrietta Frances, Countess de Grey (1784-1848), fifth daughter of William, 1st Earl of Enniskillen. In 1805 she married Thomas Philip, 2nd Earl de Grey of Wrest Park, who served as Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire, first Lord of the Admiralty from 1834-35 and Yeomanry Aide-de-camp to William IV from 1831 to 1837 and to Queen Victoria from 1837-59.

Provenance:
Countess de Grey (1784-1848), Sotheby's, New York, April 16, 1996, lot 234
The Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Christie's New York, 20th October 1999, lot 209

Literature: John Culme, Nineteenth Century Silver, London 1977, p.144