PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT FAMILY COLLECTION HENRIQUE TEIXEIRA DE SAMPAIO, BARAO DE TEIXEIRA THE SAMPAIO DINNER-SERVICE BY PAUL STORR AND 1ST CONDE DE PÓVOA (1774-1833) HISTORY AND PROVENANCE Sampaio was born in the town of Angra on the island of Terceira in The Conde de Póvoa was a signifcant patron of Paul Storr in the the Portuguese administered Azores. He was the son of Francisco José 1820s, refecting not only his ties with England, but also the strong Teixeira de Sampaio and his second wife Eulália Floriana Gualberta de political and trade ties between England and Portugal in the 19th Melo Carvão, his father being a successful businessman and his mother century. The service, which must feature as one of the great services connected to some of the greatest families of the region. He was that Storr produced following his departure from Rundell, Bridge born in the family home and was christened on 16 November 1774, and Rundell in 1819, at which time he established a shop in New with Henrique José de Carvalho e Melo, Conde de Oeiras acting as his Bond Street with John Mortimer. The service descended at Casa Godfather. His father already had established trade links with England, Palmela, Lisbon, the family home of the Dukes of Palmela, until April supplying the Portuguese army with food, and so it was not surprising 1976 when a signifcant portion of the major pieces were sold by that the young Sampaio was sent there to study. While in London Christie’s at auction in Geneva. he began his own business career, following in his father’s footsteps, As with the examples here, the table service excepted, the pieces being appointed in 1807 as Commissioner of Army Supplies for the sold in the 1976 sale were all marked for Paul Storr, dated either Anglo-Portuguese forces who were seeking to prevent Napoleon’s 1822 or 1823. Divided into 8 lots the service weighed just under invasion of Portugal. 6,000 ounces, giving some idea of the outstanding quality of the This position, as well as the exclusive contract for the supply of pieces. They were: tobacco, allowed him to establish a huge fortune very quickly, to the extent that he was said to be amongst the richest men in Portugal, LOT 192 worth some 21,000,000 cruzados on his death in 1833. With this A TABLE GARNITURE CONSISTING OF AN EIGHT-LIGHT wealth, and the loans he made to the State, came social and political CANDELABRUM, A PAIR OF FOUR CANDELABRA- prominence, particularly in his infuence on Portuguese fscal policy. His CENTREPIECES AND A PLATEAU position and importance to Portuguese society was commemorated on The pair of four candelabra-centrepieces subsequently sold 22 May 1816 when the title 1st Lord de Sampaio was conferred upon Sotheby’s, New York, 28 October 1988, lot 218. him by King João VI in Rio de Janeiro. Soon after, on 6 March 1819, he The eight-light candelabrum now in the collection of the was made, by Royal Charter, 1st Barao de Teixeira and was granted the Preservation Society of Newport County. right to bear arms. LOT 193 While his business interests continued to thrive in the 1820s, making A PAIR OF FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA Sampaio’s trading house the largest in Portugal and a rival to other Subsequently sold Christie’s, New York, 19 April 2002, lot 348. frms in London and Hamburg, the fnances of the Portuguese state were in a perilous condition. The further loans Sampaio made to the LOT 194 state resulted in him becoming the biggest creditor to the Treasury, A SET OF FOUR THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA and so when the Bank of Lisbon was founded in 1822, he became Subsequently sold Christie’s, New York, 19 April 2002, lot 348. the biggest shareholder with some 400 shares, compared to only 100 shares owned by the next largest shareholder. In honour of this he was LOT 195 created 1st Conde de Póvoa on 3 July 1823, named after his estate in A PAIR OF WARWICK VASES Póvoa de Santo Adrião, near Lisbon. Sampaio married twice, frst in February 1802 to Marianne Slack, the LOT 196 daughter of an ex-patriot Irish merchant who was living in Lisbon. She A PAIR OF SOUP-TUREENS AND STANDS died, along with her child, in childbirth in October 1804 and Sampaio Subsequently sold Sotheby’s, New York, 28 October 1988, lot 219. was to remain childless and unmarried until March 1824 when he was married to his second wife Louisa Maria José Rita Baltazar de Noronha, LOT 197 who was only 21 and already expecting a child at the time of the A FURTHER PAIR OF SOUP-TUREENS marriage. In order to protect his assets for his child he arranged for a Subsequently sold Christie’s, New York, 20 October 1999, lot 206. trust to be set up by Royal decree. Unfortunately, the frst child, born LOT 198 some fve months after their marriage, died soon after birth. It was not A SET OF FOUR WINE-COOLERS until 1826 that the couple had a son called João Maria de Noronha Sampaio and a daughter named Marie Louise de Noronha Sampaio the LOT 199 next year. A FURTHER PAIR OF WINE-COOLERS Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio died at his home of Rua da Escola Politécnica, in Lisbon, on 27 March 1833, aged 59 years. His son João LOT 200 Maria de Noronha become 2nd Conde de Póvoa and inherited the A SET OF EIGHT SALT-CELLARS family fortune, aged only 6. The 2nd Conde died soon after, in 1837 Subsequently exhibited Christie’s, London, The Glory of the at which time the titles became extinct and the fortune passed to Goldsmith, Magnifcent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, his sister Marie Louise de Noronha Sampaio who went on to marry, no. 151. against the wishes of her mother, Domingos António Pedro de Sousa Holstein, the future 2nd Duke of Palmela. The Dining Room at Casa Pamela, showing a portion of the Sampaio Service in situ 117744 175 322 A SET OF TWENTY-FOUR GEORGE IV SILVER DINNER-PLATES FROM THE SAMPAIO SERVICE MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1823 Each shaped circular and with shell and foliage heightened gadrooned border, engraved with a coat-of-arms below baron’s coronet, marked underneath 10æ in. (27 cm.) diam. 549 oz. 6 dwt. (17,084 gr.) The arms are those of Teixeira quartering Sampaio, Amaral and Guedes for Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio, Barao de Teixeira, later 1st Conde de Póvoa (1774-1833). (24) £40,000-60,000 $67,000-100,000 Ç49,000-72,000 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) on whose death in 1837 the titles became extinct and the family fortunes, and the dinner-service, passed to his sister Marie Louise de Noronha Sampaio who married Domingos António Pedro de Sousa Holstein, later the 2nd Duke of Palmela (1818-1864). 176 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT FAMILY COLLECTION 323 A GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT TABLE-SERVICE AND A GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT DESSERT-SERVICE FROM THE SAMPAIO SERVICE MARK OF WILLIAM ELEY AND WILLIAM FEARN, LONDON, 1822 A Stag Hunt pattern table-service, engraved with a crest and baron’s coronet, comprising: Forty-eight table-spoons Fifty-nine table-forks Twelve salt-spoons Eight sauce-ladles Three basting-spoons Two soup-ladles Two pairs of asparagus-tongs A fsh-slice An ice-spade Two sifting-spoons, 1823 A mustard-spoon, 1823 and the following with steel blades and flled handles: Seventy-two table-knives, three mark of Paul Storr Six carving-knives Six carving-forks Two sharpening-steels A Baccanalian pattern dessert-service, engraved with a crest and baron’s coronet, comprising: Forty-six dessert-spoons Forty-seven dessert-forks Forty-eight fruit-knives with flled handles and silver-gilt blades, one with mark of Paul Storr, 1820 some contained in three ftted wood boxes weighable silver 789 oz. 10 dwt. (24,556 gr.) The crest is that of Teixeira quartering Sampaio, Amaral and Guedes for Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio, Barao de Teixeira, later 1st Conde de Póvoa (1774-1833). (366) £40,000-60,000 $67,000-100,000 Ç49,000-72,000 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) on whose death in 1837 the titles became extinct and the family fortunes, and the dinner-service, passed to his sister Marie Louise de Noronha Sampaio who married Domingos António Pedro de Sousa Holstein, later the 2nd Duke of Palmela (1818-1864). PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT FAMILY COLLECTION 324 A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE IV SILVER SOUP-PLATES FROM THE SAMPAIO SERVICE MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1823 Each shaped circular and with shell and foliage heightened gadrooned borders, engraved with a coat-of-arms below baron’s coronet, marked underneath 10æ in. (27 cm.) diam. 290 oz. 6 dwt. (9,030 gr.) The arms are those of Teixeira quartering Sampaio, Amaral and Guedes for Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio, Barao de Teixeira, later 1st Conde de Póvoa (1774-1833). (12) £15,000-25,000 $26,000-42,000 Ç19,000-30,000 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) on whose death in 1837 the titles became extinct and the family fortunes, and the dinner-service, passed to his sister Marie Louise de Noronha Sampaio who married Domingos António Pedro de Sousa Holstein, later the 2nd Duke of Palmela (1818-1864). 178 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT FAMILY COLLECTION 325 A GEORGE IV SILVER BASKET FROM THE SAMPAIO SERVICE MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1821 Oval and on spreading foot, with overhead swing handle, chased overall with foliage scrolls and fowers, applied with a coat-of-arms below baron’s coronet, marked underneath and on coat-of-arms 14¡ in. (36.4 cm.) wide 58 oz. 6 dwt. (1,814 gr.) The arms are those of Teixeira quartering Sampaio, Amaral and Guedes for Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio, Barao de Teixeira, later 1st Conde de Póvoa (1774-1833). £7,000-10,000 $12,000-17,000 Ç8,500-12,000 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) on whose death in 1837 the titles became extinct and the family fortunes, and the dinner-service, passed to his sister Marie Louise de Noronha Sampaio who married Domingos António Pedro de Sousa Holstein, later the 2nd Duke of Palmela (1818-1864). 179 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT FAMILY COLLECTION PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT FAMILY COLLECTION 326 327 A PAIR OF GEORGE IV SILVER ENTRÉE-DISHES A GEORGE IV SILVER CRUET FROM THE SAMPAIO SERVICE FROM THE SAMPAIO SERVICE MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1823 MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1822 Oval, with foliage and shell heightened gadrooned border, on four shell Each shaped circular with shell and foliage heightened gadrooned and vine feet, with central handle, with fve silver-mounted cut-glass border, engraved with a crest below baron’s coronet, marked on side jars, engraved with a coat-of-arms below baron’s coronet, marked 11¬ in. (29.5 cm.) diam. underneath, on handle, rims and cover 65 oz. 9 dwt. (2,036 gr.) the stand 13æ in. (35 cm.) wide weighable silver 55 oz. 15 dwt. (1,734 gr.) The arms are those of Teixeira quartering Sampaio, Amaral and Guedes for Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio, Barao de Teixeira, later 1st Conde de The arms are those of Teixeira quartering Sampaio, Amaral and Guedes Póvoa (1774-1833). (2) for Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio, Barao de Teixeira, later 1st Conde de Póvoa (1774-1833). £3,000-5,000 $5,100-8,400 Ç3,700-6,000 £4,000-6,000 $6,700-10,000 Ç4,900-7,200 PROVENANCE: Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio, Barao de Teixeira and later 1st Conde de PROVENANCE: Póvoa (1774-1833), then by descent to his son Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio, Barao de Teixeira and later 1st Conde de João Maria de Noronha, 2nd Conde de Póvoa (1826-1837) on whose Póvoa (1774-1833), then by descent to his son death in 1837 the titles became extinct and the family fortunes, and the João Maria de Noronha, 2nd Conde de Póvoa (1826-1837) on whose dinner-service, passed to his sister death in 1837 the titles became extinct and the family fortunes, and the Marie Louise de Noronha Sampaio who married Domingos António dinner-service, passed to his sister Pedro de Sousa Holstein, later the 2nd Duke of Palmela (1818-1864). Marie Louise de Noronha Sampaio who married Domingos António Pedro de Sousa Holstein, later the 2nd Duke of Palmela (1818-1864). 180 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT FAMILY COLLECTION 328 A GEORGE IV SILVER MEAT-DISH WITH SILVER-MOUNTED OLD SHEFFIELD PLATE DISH-COVER FROM THE SAMPAIO SERVICE THE DISH AND THE SILVER MOUNTS WITH THE MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1822 The dish oval with foliage and shell heightened gadrooned border, engraved with a coat-of-arms below baron’s coronet, the cover domed and with loop handle and applied with cast coats-of-arms below baron’s coronets, marked under dish and on mounts and handle the meat-dish 19¿ in. (48.6 cm.) wide the meat-dish 76 oz. 10 dwt. (2,379 gr.) The arms are those of Teixeira quartering Sampaio, Amaral and Guedes for Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio, Barao de Teixeira, later 1st Conde de Póvoa (1774-1833). (2) £4,000-6,000 $6,700-10,000 Ç4,900-7,200 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) on whose death in 1837 the titles became extinct and the family fortunes, and the dinner-service, passed to his sister Marie Louise de Noronha Sampaio who married Domingos António Pedro de Sousa Holstein, later the 2nd Duke of Palmela (1818-1864). 181 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION (LOTS 828 834) 828 A PAIR OF GEORGE IV SILVER ENTREE DISHES AND COVERS FROM THE SAMPAIO SERVICE MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1822, ONE HANDLE 1823 Each shaped circular with gadrooned, shell and acanthus border, the conforming covers with leaf capped scroll handles, each dish engraved twice with a crest below a baron’s coronet, the covers applied twice with a coat of arms below a baronet’s coronet, each marked on dish, inside cover, on handle, on coatsofarms and coronets 11Ω in. (29.2 cm.) diam. 136 oz. 16 dwt. (4,256 gr.) The arms are those of Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio, 1st Conde de Póvoa (1774 1833). (2) £7,000 10,000 US$11,000 15,000 €7,900 11,000 PROVENANCE: Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio, 1st Conde de Póvoa (1774 1833), then by descent to his son João Maria de Noronha, 2nd Conde de Póvoa (1826 1837) on whose death in 1837 the titles became extinct and the family fortunes, and the dinner service, passed 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 family of the Dukes of Palmela at Casa Palmela. EXHIBITED: Lisbon, Casa Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves, Una Familia de Coleccionadores Poder e Cultura, February to September 2001. 442 829 830 A GEORGE IV SILVER MEAT DISH AND A GEORGE IV SILVER A GEORGE IV SILVER MEAT DISH AND A GEORGE IV SILVER MOUNTED OLD SHEFFIELD PLATE COVER FROM THE SAMPAIO MOUNTED OLD SHEFFIELD PLATE COVER FROM THE SAMPAIO SERVICE SERVICE THE DISH AND COVER MOUNTS MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1822 AND THE DISH AND COVER MOUNTS PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1822 AND 1823 1823 Oval with shell, acanthus and gadrooned border, the cover with silver Oval with shell, acanthus and gadrooned border, the cover with silver handle and applied on each side with a silver coat of arms below a handle and applied on each side with a silver coat of arms below a baron’s coronet, the dish similarly engraved, marked on dish, handle, baron’s coronet, the dish similarly engraved, marked on dish, handle, arms and coronets arms and coronets the dish 11¿ in. (28.2 cm.) wide the dish 19¿ in. (48.5 cm.) wide the dish 23 oz. 16 dwt. (741 gr.) the dish 77 oz. 15 dwt. (2,418 gr.) The arms are those of Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio, 1st Conde de The arms are those of Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio, 1st Conde de Póvoa (1774 1833). (2) Póvoa (1774 1833). (2) £1,000 1,500 US$1,600 2,300 £4,000 6,000 US$6,100 9,000 €1,200 1,700 €4,500 6,700 PROVENANCE: PROVENANCE: Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio, 1st Conde de Póvoa (1774 1833). Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio, 1st Conde de Póvoa (1774 1833). See lot 828. See lot 828. EXHIBITED: EXHIBITED: Lisbon, Casa Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves, Una Familia de Lisbon, Casa Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves, Una Familia de Coleccionadores Poder e Cultura, February to September 2001. Coleccionadores Poder e Cultura, February to September 2001.