Ellis Finch
Head of Knightsbridge Silver Department
Lot 73
A large pair of George III silver candlesticks by Paul Storr, London 1813 (2)
5 April 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£15,000 - £20,000
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Footnotes
The design of the present lot bears many similarities to a set of four candlesticks with the maker's mark of Jonathan Alleine, and hallmarked for London 1750, sold in these rooms on 19th June 2013, lot 176.
Paul Storr produced many castings from 18th century originals; Paul de Lamerie and Paul Crespin were two silversmiths whose work he is known to have had copied. Christopher Hartop writes in The Silver of Paul Storr, p.78: 'Casting had been such an important element in rococo silver that when the taste for naturalistic ornament and a nostalgia for the restless movement of the rococo gathered momentum in the second decade of the nineteenth century, casting became ever more important in the Storr workshop.'
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