A Set of Twelve George III Silver Dinner Plates, Wakelin and Taylor, London, 1779
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April 5, 04:58 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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A Set of Twelve George III Silver Dinner Plates, Wakelin and Taylor, London, 1779
with shaped gadroon rims, borders changed circa 1820 and engraved with arms at the same date, marked on bases
244 oz
7588 g
diameter 10 in.
25.3 cm
The arms are those of Gordon impaling Finch, for Sir Jenison-William Gordon, of Newark-upon-Trent, 2nd Baronet, 1747-1831, and his wife Harriet Frances Charlotte Finch, 2nd daughter of the Hon. Edward Finch Hatton, youngest son of 7th Earl of Winchilsea and 2nd Earl of Nottingham, whom he married in 1781. He was High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1783. He died at Haverholme Priory in 1831. The house was on a site of a priory founded in 1139 and dissolved in 1539. A red brick mansion was built in 1780 and rebuilt in 1835 by H.E. Kendall, of which only a fragment remains.
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