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THE SECOND-COURSE DISH WITH MARK OF PETER ARCHAMBO AND PETER MEURE, LONDON, 1757; THE DISH CROSS WITH MARK OF SAMUEL HERBERT AND COMPANY, LONDON, 1766
Details
A GEORGE II SILVER SECOND-COURSE DISH AND A GEORGE III SILVER DISH CROSS
THE SECOND-COURSE DISH WITH MARK OF PETER ARCHAMBO AND PETER MEURE, LONDON, 1757; THE DISH CROSS WITH MARK OF SAMUEL HERBERT AND COMPANY, LONDON, 1766
The shaped circular dish with gadrooned border, engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked underneath, engraved No 32 and scratch weight 34; the dish cross on four sliding openwork shells and scroll feet with similar dish supports, engraved with crest, marked under central grille, on two bars and feet
the dish 13 in. (32 cm.) diameter; the dish cross 11 ¼ in. (28.5 cm.) wide
45 oz. 2 dwt. (1,404 gr.)
The arms on the dish are those of Bertie impaling Layard, for Brownlow Bertie, 5th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (1729-1809), Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain, and his second wife Mary Anne (1733-1804), daughter of Major Peter Layard (1666-1747), who came to England with William of Orange. The duke married Mary Anne at St. James’s Westminster in 1769.
THE SECOND-COURSE DISH WITH MARK OF PETER ARCHAMBO AND PETER MEURE, LONDON, 1757; THE DISH CROSS WITH MARK OF SAMUEL HERBERT AND COMPANY, LONDON, 1766
The shaped circular dish with gadrooned border, engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked underneath, engraved No 32 and scratch weight 34; the dish cross on four sliding openwork shells and scroll feet with similar dish supports, engraved with crest, marked under central grille, on two bars and feet
the dish 13 in. (32 cm.) diameter; the dish cross 11 ¼ in. (28.5 cm.) wide
45 oz. 2 dwt. (1,404 gr.)
The arms on the dish are those of Bertie impaling Layard, for Brownlow Bertie, 5th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (1729-1809), Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain, and his second wife Mary Anne (1733-1804), daughter of Major Peter Layard (1666-1747), who came to England with William of Orange. The duke married Mary Anne at St. James’s Westminster in 1769.
Provenance
Property from the Estate of Henry Ford II; sold Sotheby's, Turville Grange, 5 December 1988, lot 246 (the dish cross).
