Price On Request A Pair of George III Paul Storr Entree DishesSilver & Old Sheffield London, 1809 Maker’s mark of Paul Storr The original stands by Matthew Boulton 10 x 16 x 9 in (25.4 x 40.6 x 22.9 cm) Weight: 173.3 oz The two silver entrée dishes of rectangular form, the base with gadrooned rim and engraved to either side a crest with motto VIRTUTE above monogram, conforming domed cover with detachable handle with lion masks framed by a gadrooned band, engraved coat of arms below handle, stepped rim of cover with gadrooned band, the whole set within fitted silver-plated two-handled base with gadrooned rim, chevron design to legs terminating in lion’s paw feet, legs connected by beaded shaped stretcher, double silver-plated liner; the lower dish with gadrooned body and the upper with wide flange to accommodate silver covered dish.Artist Biography:Son of Thomas Storr of Westminster, first silver-chaser later innkeeper, born 1771. Apprenticed c'1785 to Andrew Fogelberg of Church Street, Soho, at which Storr's first separate mark is also entered. First mark entered as plateworker, in partnership with William Frisbee, 2 May 1792. Address: 5 Cock Lane, Snow Hill. Second mark alone, 12 January 1793. Address: 30 Church Street, Soho. Third mark, 27 April 1793. Fourth 8 August 1794. Moved to 20 Air Street, 8 October 1796, (where Thomas Pitts had worked till 1793). Fifth mark, 29 November 1799. Sixth, 21 August 1807. Address 53 Dean Street, Soho. Seventh, 10 February 1808. Ninth, 21 October 1813. Tenth, 12 September 1817. Moved to Harrison Street, Gray's Inn Road, 4 March 1819, after severing his connection with Rundell, Bridge and Rundell. Eleventh mark, 2 September 1883. Address: 17 Harrison Street. Twelfth and last mark, 2 September 1833. Heal records him in partnership with Frisbee and alone at Cock Lane in 1792,...