Lot Essay
Please note that the matching meat dish is included in The Collection of Mrs. Henry Ford II: Part I, to be held at Christie’s, New York, 30 March 2021, lot 131.
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MARK OF FREDERICK KANDLER, LONDON, 1752
Details
A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE II SILVER DINNER-PLATES
MARK OF FREDERICK KANDLER, LONDON, 1752
Each shaped circular with gadrooned border, engraved with a coat-of-arms above a motto and underneath with later initaials H*A below F, marked underneath, with scratch weight '17:5, 18:6, 17:12, 18:1, 18:6, 18:3, 17;17, 18:0, 17:9, 18:4, 17:18, 17:15'
9 ½ in. (24 cm.) diameter
210 oz. 4 dwt. (6,537 gr.)
The later arms are those of Pitt, for George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers (1721-1803), of Sudeley Castle, co. Gloucester. He was M.P. for Shaftesbury between 1742 and 1747 and then served as M.P. for Dorset between 1754 and 1747. He was Ambassador to the Kingdom of Sardinia from 1761 to 1769 and then to Spain from 1770 to 1771. He was created Baron Rivers of Stratfield Saye in 1776 and Baron Rivers of Sudeley Castle in 1802. His portrait by Thomas Gainsborough is now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
The later initials engraved in the 17th century manner are for Henry Ford II and his first wife Anne McDonnell (1919-1996), to whom he was married between 1940 and 1964.
MARK OF FREDERICK KANDLER, LONDON, 1752
Each shaped circular with gadrooned border, engraved with a coat-of-arms above a motto and underneath with later initaials H*A below F, marked underneath, with scratch weight '17:5, 18:6, 17:12, 18:1, 18:6, 18:3, 17;17, 18:0, 17:9, 18:4, 17:18, 17:15'
9 ½ in. (24 cm.) diameter
210 oz. 4 dwt. (6,537 gr.)
The later arms are those of Pitt, for George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers (1721-1803), of Sudeley Castle, co. Gloucester. He was M.P. for Shaftesbury between 1742 and 1747 and then served as M.P. for Dorset between 1754 and 1747. He was Ambassador to the Kingdom of Sardinia from 1761 to 1769 and then to Spain from 1770 to 1771. He was created Baron Rivers of Stratfield Saye in 1776 and Baron Rivers of Sudeley Castle in 1802. His portrait by Thomas Gainsborough is now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
The later initials engraved in the 17th century manner are for Henry Ford II and his first wife Anne McDonnell (1919-1996), to whom he was married between 1940 and 1964.
Provenance
J. Connolly; Christie's, London, 4 July 1894, lot 162 or 163.