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A George III silver serving dish and cover on an Old Sheffield plate warming base Paul Storr, London 1816, incuse pattern number 865, base with double sun mark with faces for Matthew Boulton image 1

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A George III silver serving dish and cover on an Old Sheffield plate warming base
Paul Storr, London 1816, incuse pattern number 865, base with double sun mark with faces for Matthew Boulton

Fine Decorative Arts

5 July 2024, 14:00 BST

London, New Bond Street

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A George III silver serving dish and cover on an Old Sheffield plate warming base

Paul Storr, London 1816, incuse pattern number 865, base with double sun mark with faces for Matthew Boulton
Oval form, the domed cover with shaped outline, engraved armorial on either side with motto 'SAPERE AUDE' for Robert TOWNLEY-PARKER, with a gadroon band below, surmounted with an acanthus carrying handle within a gadroon surround, shaped-oval base with a fruiting vine border, on an Old Sheffield plate two-handled warming base, oval bellied form, reeded and acanthus handles either side on four leaf capped scroll feet, fitted with a lift-out tinned metal / copper water trough, length of dish 38.5cm, length of warming base handle to handle 46cm, weight of silver 102oz.

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These are the quartered and impaled arms of Robert TOWNLEY-PARKER (1793-1879) of Astley Hall, Cheshire and Cuerdon Hall, Lancashire and his wife Harriet BROOKE (1798-1878). They were married in 1816 at Weaverham, Cheshire.

This lot was part of an extensive service of plate supplied to celebrate the marriage of Robert Townley-Parker and Harriet Brookes on the 21st December 1816.

Robert TOWNLEY-PARKER was born a Cuerdon Hall, Lancashire the son of Thomas TOWNLEY-PARKER (1760-1794) of Cuerden Hall by Susannah BROOKE (1762-1852) of Astley Hall, Cheshire daughter and eventual heir of Peter BROOKE (1733-1786) of Astley Hall, Cheshire and Cuerdon Hall, Lancashire by his wife Susannah CROOKALL (1733-1789). The BROOKE family had held the Astley estate from the mid seventeenth century and before that were of Mere Hall, Cheshire.

Robert Townley Parker, born 1793, succeeded to his father's estate the next year and served as High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1817, he was a Unionist Member of Parliament for the United Kingdom House of Commons constituency of Preston and a prominent Freemason. He and his wife had five sons and three daughters.

Harriett BROOKE was born at Norton Priory, Cheshire the daughter of Thomas BOOKE (1760-1825) MP for Church Minshull by his wife Margaret CUNLIFFE (1763-1826).

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