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Compote and Cover

1820-1821 (hallmarked)
Artist/Maker
Storr, Paul (maker)
Place of origin
London (assayed)

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.


Object details

Categories
Food Vessels & Tableware
Metalwork
Object type
Compote and cover
Parts
This object consists of 3 parts.

  • Compote
  • Cover
  • Glass for Compote
Materials and techniques
Raised, cast, chased and tooled silver and cut glass
Cut Glass
Silver
Raising
Casting
Chasing
Tooling
Cutting (Glassworking)
Brief description
Silver and glass, London hallmarks for 1820-21, mark of Paul Storr.
Physical description
The circular frame stands on a circular foot with a chased border and encloses a tapering, cut-glass bowl. The border of the foot is chased with stylized laurel; within is a band of grapevines on matted ground, with applied beading above. The gadrooned rim is supported by a frame of three vertical bands of vines with bunches of grapes; there is a small pendant foliate wreath at the top of each vertical element. The slightly domed, detachable cover has another band of vines on matted ground around the border and a bunch of grapes as a finial. the cover is engraved with a crest.
Dimensions
  • Height: 20.5cm
  • Diameter: 18.2cm
  • Weight: 1701g
Marks and inscriptions
  • London hallmarks for 1820-21
  • Mark of Paul Storr
  • Engraved with a crest (Unidentified)
Credit line
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Object history
Provenance: Purchased from David Orgell, Inc., Beverly Hills, 1969.
Subjects depicted
Laurel
Grape Vines
Grapes
Beading
Gadrooning
Wreath
Crest
Summary
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.
Bibliographic references
  • Wyler, Seymour B. The Book of Old Silver, English, American, Foreign. New York: Crown, 1937, p. 15.
  • Schroder, Timothy. The Gilbert collection of gold and silver. Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 1988, cat. no. 115, pp. 430-31. ISBN.0875871445
  • Jones, William Ezelle, Monumental Silver: Selections from the Gilbert Collection. Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1977 no.34
  • Gilbert, Arthur. Monumental Silver: The Gilbert Collection, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1974 no.22
Other numbers
  • SG 1 - Arthur Gilbert Number
  • M.77.1.1 - LACMA
  • SG 91 - Arthur Gilbert Number
Collection
Metalwork Collection
Accession number
LOAN:GILBERT.840:1-2008

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Record createdJune 27, 2008
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O158185/compote-and-cover-storr-paul/
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