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Paul Storr
A Pair of George IV Antique English Silver Sauce Boats, 1823
Length: 10.25 in.
Weight: 66 oz. 2 dwt.
London
H0380
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The arms are those of Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio, 1st Conde da Povoa and Barão de Teixeira (1774-1833). Provenance: Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio, Barao de Teixeira and later 1st Conde...
The arms are those of Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio, 1st Conde da Povoa and Barão de Teixeira (1774-1833). Provenance: Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio, Barao de Teixeira and later 1st Conde de Póvoa (1774-1833), then by descent to his son João Maria de Noronha, 2nd Conde de Póvoa (1826-1837). To his sister Marie Louise de Noronha Sampaio who married Domingos António Pedro de Sousa Holstein, later the 2nd Duke of Palmela (1818-1864) and by descent in the late 5th Duke of Palmela at Casa Palmela.
The Conde de Póvoa was a significant patron of Paul Storr in the 1820s, reflecting not only his ties with England, but also the strong political and trade ties between England and Portugal in the 19th century. The Service, which remains one of the great services that Storr produced following his departure from Rundell, Bridge and Rundell in 1819, at which time he established a shop in New Bond Street with John Mortimer.The service remained at Casa Palmela, the family home of the Dukes of Palmela in Lisbon, until April 1976, when a significant portion of the major pieces were sold by Christie's at auction in Geneva divided into 8 lots weighing just under 6,000 ounces.
These sauceboats are inspired by Rococo prototypes of 1764 in the Royal Collection, illustrated in E. Alfred Jones, The Gold and Silver of Windsor Castle, 1911, plate LXXXII.
HENRIQUE TEXEIRA DE SAMPAIO, BARAO DE TEXEIRA AND 1ST CONDE DE POVOA (1774-1833)
Sampaio was born in Angra on the island of Terceira in the Portuguese administered Azores. The son of Francisco José Teixeira de Sampaio (1738-1810) and his second wife Eulália Floriana Gualberta de Melo Carvão (1753-1824), his father was a successful businessman who had strong trade links with England. The young Sampaio was sent to study in London where he quickly followed in his father's political and business footsteps. In 1807 he was appointed as Commissioner of Army Supplies for the Anglo-Portuguese forces who were seeking to prevent Napoleon's invasion of Portugal.
This position, as well as the exclusive contract for the supply of tobacco, allowed him to establish a huge fortune in a very short period of time, making him one of the richest men in Portugal, worth some 21,000,000 cruzados on his death in 1833. His position and importance in Portuguese society was recognised on 22 May 1816 when he received the title 1st Lord de Sampaio from King João VI in Rio de Janeiro. Soon after, on 6 March 1819, he was made 1st Barao de Teixeira by Royal Charter, and was granted the right to bear arms.
Whilst his business interests continued to thrive during the 1820s, making Sampaio's trading house the largest in Portugal and a rival to other firms in London and Hamburg, the finances of the Portuguese state were in a perilous condition. Sampaio provided loans to the state so that when the Bank of Lisbon was founded in 1822, he became the biggest creditor shareholder with some 400 shares, compared to only 100 shares owned by the next largest shareholder. As a sign of gratitude he was created 1st Conde de Póvoa on 3 July 1823, named after his estate in Póvoa de Santo Adrião, near Lisbon.
Sampaio married twice, first in February 1802 to Marianne Slack, the daughter of an ex-patriot Irish merchant who was living in Lisbon who died in childbirth in October 1804. It was not until March 1824 that Sampaio remarried Louisa Maria José Rita Baltazar de Noronha, who was aged only 21 and already expecting a child at the time of the marriage. In order to protect his assets for his child he arranged for a trust to be set up by Royal decree. Unfortunately, the first child died soon after birth and in1826 that the couple had a son, João Maria de Noronha Sampaio, and a daughter, Marie Louise de Noronha Sampaio, the following year.
Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio died at his home on Rua da Escola Politécnica, in Lisbon, on 27 March 1833, aged 59 years. His son João Maria de Noronha became 2nd Conde de Póvoa and inherited the family fortune, aged only 6 but died soon after in 1837. The titles thus became extinct and the fortune passed to his sister Marie Louise de Noronha Sampaio who went on to marry, against the wishes of her mother, Domingos António Pedro de Sousa Holstein (1818-1864), the future 2nd Duke of Palmela.
The Conde de Póvoa was a significant patron of Paul Storr in the 1820s, reflecting not only his ties with England, but also the strong political and trade ties between England and Portugal in the 19th century. The Service, which remains one of the great services that Storr produced following his departure from Rundell, Bridge and Rundell in 1819, at which time he established a shop in New Bond Street with John Mortimer.The service remained at Casa Palmela, the family home of the Dukes of Palmela in Lisbon, until April 1976, when a significant portion of the major pieces were sold by Christie's at auction in Geneva divided into 8 lots weighing just under 6,000 ounces.
These sauceboats are inspired by Rococo prototypes of 1764 in the Royal Collection, illustrated in E. Alfred Jones, The Gold and Silver of Windsor Castle, 1911, plate LXXXII.
HENRIQUE TEXEIRA DE SAMPAIO, BARAO DE TEXEIRA AND 1ST CONDE DE POVOA (1774-1833)
Sampaio was born in Angra on the island of Terceira in the Portuguese administered Azores. The son of Francisco José Teixeira de Sampaio (1738-1810) and his second wife Eulália Floriana Gualberta de Melo Carvão (1753-1824), his father was a successful businessman who had strong trade links with England. The young Sampaio was sent to study in London where he quickly followed in his father's political and business footsteps. In 1807 he was appointed as Commissioner of Army Supplies for the Anglo-Portuguese forces who were seeking to prevent Napoleon's invasion of Portugal.
This position, as well as the exclusive contract for the supply of tobacco, allowed him to establish a huge fortune in a very short period of time, making him one of the richest men in Portugal, worth some 21,000,000 cruzados on his death in 1833. His position and importance in Portuguese society was recognised on 22 May 1816 when he received the title 1st Lord de Sampaio from King João VI in Rio de Janeiro. Soon after, on 6 March 1819, he was made 1st Barao de Teixeira by Royal Charter, and was granted the right to bear arms.
Whilst his business interests continued to thrive during the 1820s, making Sampaio's trading house the largest in Portugal and a rival to other firms in London and Hamburg, the finances of the Portuguese state were in a perilous condition. Sampaio provided loans to the state so that when the Bank of Lisbon was founded in 1822, he became the biggest creditor shareholder with some 400 shares, compared to only 100 shares owned by the next largest shareholder. As a sign of gratitude he was created 1st Conde de Póvoa on 3 July 1823, named after his estate in Póvoa de Santo Adrião, near Lisbon.
Sampaio married twice, first in February 1802 to Marianne Slack, the daughter of an ex-patriot Irish merchant who was living in Lisbon who died in childbirth in October 1804. It was not until March 1824 that Sampaio remarried Louisa Maria José Rita Baltazar de Noronha, who was aged only 21 and already expecting a child at the time of the marriage. In order to protect his assets for his child he arranged for a trust to be set up by Royal decree. Unfortunately, the first child died soon after birth and in1826 that the couple had a son, João Maria de Noronha Sampaio, and a daughter, Marie Louise de Noronha Sampaio, the following year.
Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio died at his home on Rua da Escola Politécnica, in Lisbon, on 27 March 1833, aged 59 years. His son João Maria de Noronha became 2nd Conde de Póvoa and inherited the family fortune, aged only 6 but died soon after in 1837. The titles thus became extinct and the fortune passed to his sister Marie Louise de Noronha Sampaio who went on to marry, against the wishes of her mother, Domingos António Pedro de Sousa Holstein (1818-1864), the future 2nd Duke of Palmela.