Hunt & Roskell
( 1843 - 1897 )
A Victorian Punch Bowl
Hunt & Roskell
( 1843 - 1897 )
A Victorian Punch Bowl
Maker's mark Hunt & Roskell
London, 1877
Height over handles 16 inches (41 cm), length over handles 24 inches (61 cm), approximately 250 ounces.
Of campana-form with rampant lion handles and a frieze of applied branches, over a fluted section, on a pedestal foot.
John Hunt & Robert Roskell
156 New Bond Street, London W 26 Harrison St, nr Clerkenwell. Silversmiths and jewellers to Queen Victoria. Successors to Mortimer & Hunt on the retirement of John Mortimer. Hunt & Roskell, a firm of manufacturing and retail jewellers and silversmiths, was founded by Paul Storr in 1819, trading as Storr & Co. (1819-22), Storr & Mortimer (1822-38), Mortimer & Hunt (1838-43) and then Hunt & Roskell (1843-97). Hunt & Roskell had retail premises at 156 New Bond Street and a manufactory at 26 Harrison Street, near Clerkenwell. John Samuel Hunt, who had assisted Storr from the start, continued as a partner until his death in 1865, when he was succeeded by his son, John Hunt (d.1879). Robert Roskell, formerly a watchmaker and merchant of Liverpool, joined in 1844 and remained in the firm until his death in 1888. In 1889 the firm was taken over by J.W. Benson and continued in business as Hunt & Roskell Ltd until c.1965.
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