Description

NOTE FOUR PIECES ONLY NO COFFEE POT.... A George III four piece silver-gilt tea service
Paul Storr, London 1814-15
comprising: a water pot with burner and stand, a teapot, a cream jug and a twin-handled sugar bowl, the bodies decorated with convex fluted lower sections with plain upper band and with border of anthemion foliate frieze, the WATER pot and teapot with carved ivory scroll handle with curled thumb-piece, and twin serpent tail terminals, the sugar bowl and cream jug with integral tapered loop handles with classical Greek female mask terminals and acanthus leaf mounts of loop, each piece of hemispherical form with tapered body and resting on gadrooned circular foot rim, engraved with armorial and crest with coronet above (4)
WATER pot and stand 31cm high, combined weight of service 108oz
Heraldry:
Engraved with the crest and coronet of Sir William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale (1807-1844).
Note:
For a similar set, see Sotheby’s, London, 7th November 1996, lot 120A.

Footnote

Engraved with the crest and coronet of Sir William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale (1807-1844)

For a similar set, see Sotheby's London, 7th November 1996, lot 120A