Edward Farrell – A rare pair of George IV sterling silver mustard pots in the Teniers style, London 1821

each of globular form with embossed scenes of Dutch houses forming a village against a stippled ground. The front with cast and applied ornament of figures at leisure, the foreground with a lion rampant to sinister. The lid similarly embossed with a scroll and flower rim surmounted by a cast finial of a bird pecking a gourd. Each sat upon four feet formed as lion paws the knees modelled as maidens faces, the handles formed as cast differently modelled roses. Spoon aperture cut to body right to handle, marked to shoulder and part marked to lid. (2)

Length inc handle – 12 cm / 4.75 inches

Height – 10.5 cm / 4.1 inches

Weight (total) – 710 grams / 22.83 ozt

For a similar mustard pot with bird finial and decoration of houses by Farrell, see John Moran Auctioneers, Jan 19th 2016 Lot 1137. A mustard pot of the same year of different form but with paw feet and male masks for knees is in The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the V&A (LOAN:GILBERT.982-2008)

Edward Cornlius Farrell, British 1775 - 1850, (mark registered 1813) was a famed silversmith of the time, he collaborated with Kensington Lewis, a retailer and antiquarian, to supply his ornately and finely embossed and cast wares, often silver-gilt and unusually for the time often in Britannia standard. Popular with high society and royal circles, Farrell’s greatest commissions came from The Duke of York, Prince Fredrick Augustus circa 1824, which was famously later auctioned at Christies in 1827 to pay for the Duke’s substantial debts, see Lot 200, Christies sale 14193 ‘Robert de Balkany Rome & The Côte d’Azure’ March 22-23 2017.