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AN IMPORTANT GEORGE III SILVER-GILT SURTOUT-DE-TABLE
MARK OF PAUL STORR LONDON, 1810, RETAILED BY RUNDELL, BRIDGE AND RUNDELL
AN IMPORTANT GEORGE III SILVER-GILT SURTOUT-DE-TABLE MARK OF PAUL STORR LONDON, 1810, RETAILED BY RUNDELL, BRIDGE AND RUNDELL The three dessert-stands each on incurved triangular base, the two smaller with three sea-god masks the larger with dophins, each with applied fruit festoons between, the stem formed as three maenads with ribbon-tied thyrsi between, supporting on their heads a detachable basket, with pierced grapevine border, each engraved underneath with a coat-arms in reverse below an earl's coronet, the larger similarly engraved on each side, the smaller each engraved on each side with a crest below an earl's coronet, the mirror plateau in three sections, chased with fruiting grapevines, the stands each marked on bowl, top section, bases of figures, the stands and bases each marked underneath, the bottom plaque with engraved coats-of-arms apparently unmarked but engraved with inventory numbers, painted under one section of the mirror plateau with a weight '209"8' the plateau 59 in. (150 cm.) wide the larger stand 17¼ in. (44 cm.) high weighable silver 534 oz. (16,616 gr.) The arms are those of Belmore quartering Corry for Somerset, 2nd Earl of Belmore (1774-1841). His father Armar Lowry assumed the additional surname and arms of Corry and was elevated to the peerage of Ireland in 1781 as Baron Belmore of Castle Coole, Co. Fermanagh. The 2nd Earl was Custos Rotulorum of Co. Tyrone and sometime Governor-General of Jamaica. He married, in 1800, Juliana, second daughter of Henry-Thomas, 2nd Earl of Carrick. (4)