
Ellis Finch
Head of Knightsbridge Silver Department
Sold for £50,000 inc. premium
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The pair to this tureen was sold at Sotheby's, London, 30 November, 1978, lot 48 and as part of lot 52, Christie's, New York, 10 January 1991, The Marcos Collection sold on behalf of the Republic of the Philippines through the Presidential Commission on Good Government.
A soup tureen of this model is illustrated in Christopher Hartop, 'Art in Industry: The Silver of Paul Storr' (Cambridge 2015), page 8.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby's: London 2nd June 1992, lot 131 with the following provenance:
Emanuel II, King of Portugal.
Augusta Victoria of Hehenzollern, Queen of Portugal who married secondly Robert, Count Douglas.
Purchased from the above collection by Gallerie Jürg Stucker, Bern in 1973.