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Collections > Silver > Vegetable Dish and Cover, 1808

Vegetable Dish and Cover, 1808

Circular vegetable dish with shell and acanthus leaf gadrooned border into which fits a high domed cover decorated above the rim with a broad band of bold flutes. The top of the dome accommodates a border of detachable and bold beadwork which forms the edge to the central plateau from which springs out of a ducal coronet a plume of eight ostrich feathers issuant a falcon rising forming a handle. Size: Height: 27.5 cm
Gift of H.M.Treasury 1982 (accepted in lieu of death duties from the collection of the Marquess of Ormonde)

Artist / Maker: Paul Storr (1771-1844)

Place: London

Object Type: dish

Period: George III

Broad Date: Late Georgian

Actual Date: 1808

Century: 19th century

Material: Silver

Museum Accession Number: 1982.24.5/Sil.