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A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III SILVER-GILT SALT-CELLARS

Lot 30
07.07.2023 11:00UTC +00:00
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ID 992705
Lot 30 | A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III SILVER-GILT SALT-CELLARS
Estimate value
£ 120 000 – 180 000
A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III SILVER-GILT SALT-CELLARS

MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1810, THE DESIGN ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM THEED

Each on a rectangular plinth chased with Vitruvian scroll border on four ball feet, supporting a triton holding a shell, marked under base and on shell

5 in. (12.8 cm.) long

166 oz. 9 dwt. (5,178 gr.)





Provenance

Robert Grosvenor, 2nd Earl Grosvenor and 1st Marquess of Westminster K.G. (1767-1845) of Eaton Hall, Cheshire, then by descent to,

Hugh Richard Arthur, 2nd Duke of Westminster (1879-1953) of Eaton Hall, Cheshire.

The Most Noble Hugh Richard Arthur, Duke of Westminster (dec'd) G.C.V.O., D.S.O.; Sotheby's, London, 2 July 1959, lot 129.

Mrs Filomena 'Fay' Plohn (1924-2009) of New York,

The Fay Plohn Collection, Part 2; Sotheby's, London, 15 October 1970, lots 82 and 83.

Cornelius Ruxton Love Jr. (1904-1971) and Audrey B. Love (1903-2003) of New York,

The C. Ruxton and Audrey B. Love Collection: Christie's, New York, 19 October 2004, lot 224.



Literature

A. Phillips and J. Sloane, Exhibition catalogue, Antiquity Revisited: English and French Silver-Gilt, London, 1997, p. 48, no. 7.



Exhibited

New York, Christie's, Antiquity Revisited: English and French Silver-Gilt from the Collection of Audrey Love, September 1997, San Marino, Huntington Art Gallery, November 1998 - January 1999, no. 7.



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