A LARGE GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT TANKARD, PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1829
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A LARGE GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT TANKARD, PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1829
the body cast, chased and applied with a Bacchic scene, the handle formed as a maenad, the detachable cover topped by Neptune and a young hippocamp
marked on base and cover, stamped Storr & Mortimer and numbered 206, the cover rim and foot rim engraved No. 1 Published as the Act directs by Storr & Mortimer, 13 New Bond Street, London, March 20, 1830
113 oz 10 dwt
3533 g
height 16 in.
40.7 cm
A tankard by Paul Storr with the same body and handle from 1827 is illustrated in The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, 1989, p. 209, pl. 161.