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One was E.H.Baily, a sculptor, who had formerly modelled for the Royal Goldsmiths of the Regency, Rundell, Bridge & Rundell.  Paul Storr, who had persuaded him to leave, had also relinquished his direction of one of Rundell’s workshops & gone into partnership with John Mortimer in 1823.  Storr’s firm was eventually styled Hunt & Roskell one of the richest & best known silversmithing concerns of the Victorian era.  They employed several Frenchmen (including the great artist-craftsman Antoine Vechte) and the presence of these designers in their studio probably explains the structural use of wing forms, which was copied from contemporary French sources.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Christening cup, silver-gilt, London 1852-53, mark of Hunt and Roskell.","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"angels","id":"x30526"},{"text":"serpent","id":"AAT42758"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["M.47-1972"],"accessionNumberNum":"47","accessionNumberPrefix":"M","accessionYear":1972,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-12","recordCreationDate":"2004-03-03","availableToBook":false}}