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Vegetable dish
  • Vegetable dish
    Storr, Paul, born 1771 - died 1844
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Vegetable dish

  • Place of origin:

    London, England (made)

  • Date:

    1817-1818 (marked)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Storr, Paul, born 1771 - died 1844 (maker)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Silver and Sheffield plate

  • Credit Line:

    The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

  • Museum number:

    LOAN:GILBERT.801:1-2008

  • Gallery location:

    In Storage

  • Image in copyright

Sir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes. Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996.

Physical description

The vegetable dish has gadrooned borders chased at interval s with shells and flowers and flat-chased within a band of scrolling foliage, trelliswork, and scales. The domed covers of these dishes are decorated in relief with flowers, trelliswork, scrolls, and shells on matted ground; they have a coat of arms applied on both sides and a moulded band of rosettes and foliage above the plain rims. Detachable reeded handles spring from lion masks above a foliate calyx.

Place of Origin

London, England (made)

Date

1817-1818 (marked)

Artist/maker

Storr, Paul, born 1771 - died 1844 (maker)

Materials and Techniques

Silver and Sheffield plate

Marks and inscriptions

London hallmarks for 1817-18
Mark of Paul Storr

Dimensions

Length: 35 cm, Diameter: 28.3 cm, Height: 26.4 cm, Weight: 2371 g, Weight: 2455 g, Weight: 2525 g, Weight: 2605 g

Object history note

Provenance: Bernard Edward Howard, twelfth Duke of Norfolk (complete service) Lillian and Morrie A. Morris, Memphis, Tennessee. Purchased from David Orgell, Inc., Beverly Hills, 1976.

Descriptive line

Silver and Sheffield plate, London hallmarks for 1817-18, mark of Paul Storr

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Moss, Morrie A. The Lillian and Morrie A. Moss Collection of Paul Storr Silver. Miami: Roskin Book Productions, 1972.
Examples of similar dishes from the Duke of Norfolk Service.
Schroder, Timothy. The Gilbert collection of gold and silver. Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 1988, cat. no.114, pp. 425-29. ISBN.0875871445

Materials

Silver; Sheffield plate

Techniques

Piercing; Chasing; Applied work; Stamping (marking); Flat chasing

Subjects depicted

Flowers; Foliage; Scrolling foliage; Reeding; Coats of arms; Rosettes; Shells; Gadroons; Scales; Lion masks; Trelliswork

Categories

Metalwork; Eating; Food vessels & Tableware

Collection code

MET

Qr_O158114
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