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A pair of silver serving dishes and covers with removable…
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Auckland
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21-Jun-2011
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A pair of silver serving dishes and covers with removable handles by Paul Storr, London 1838. Of serpentine outlined oblong shape, with gadrooned rims and with shells forming handles at either end. The covers of conforming shape each with removable cast handles, modelled as naturalistic acanthus leaved boughs. The covers both engraved with an armorial attributed to Baron Charles Peter Shakerley (1792-1857) of Somerfield Park, Cheshire. The arms are Shakerley impaled with Webster of Ashfield, County Longford, Ireland above the motto ‘Nil Desperandum’ (Never Despair). The arms represent the conjoined families of Geoffery Shakerley, youngest son of Charles Watkins Shakerley who married Ellen Maria, daughter of James Agneau Webster in April 1827. Both covers and dishes bear the crest of Shakerley: a garb (or wheat-sheaf) with hare salient. Each base marked with the London retailer’s mark ‘Storr & Mortimer’. Total weight 4kg. 36.5 x 26.5 x 14.5 cm
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