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A pair of Victorian silver sauceboats John Samuel Hunt, London 1843, also stamped HUNT & ROSKELL LATE STORR, MORTIMER & HUNT image 1
A pair of Victorian silver sauceboats John Samuel Hunt, London 1843, also stamped HUNT & ROSKELL LATE STORR, MORTIMER & HUNT image 2
A pair of Victorian silver sauceboats John Samuel Hunt, London 1843, also stamped HUNT & ROSKELL LATE STORR, MORTIMER & HUNT image 3
The Silver Collection of Dr Andrew J Rainey
LOT 665 - 751
Lot 668

A pair of Victorian silver sauceboats
John Samuel Hunt, London 1843, also stamped HUNT & ROSKELL LATE STORR, MORTIMER & HUNT

18 – 19 April 2023, 10:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A pair of Victorian silver sauceboats

John Samuel Hunt, London 1843, also stamped HUNT & ROSKELL LATE STORR, MORTIMER & HUNT
Rococo form, oval with applied acanthus scroll shaped rim, the sides with inverted flutes issuing from the upswept scroll back, leaf-capped scroll handle on four rococo style scroll feet, the front with engraved crest, on a mount vert a fern brake surmounted by a dove volant in its beak a laurel branch proper, the wings a semee of estoiles or., all within scroll mantling, length 20cm, weight 34.8oz.

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From The Silver Collection of Dr Andrew J Rainey

This is probably the crest of Sir Albert Abdullah David Sassoon, 1st Baronet, KCB, CSI (25 July 1818 – 24 October 1896) was a Baghdad-born businessman and philanthropist.
He was the eldest son of David SASSOON and Abdallah JOSEPH of Baghdad and in 1838 married Hannah Meyer MOSES whose father was Meyer MOSES of Bombay. In 1890 he was created 1st Baronet and died at his house, 1 Eastern Terrace, Brighton, on 24th October 1896. The ancestry of his family is to be found in Sason, a town in Norther Kurdistan. A caricature portrait in 'Vanity Fair' (16 Aug. 1879) entitled him 'The Indian Rothschild.'

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