A Pair of Irish Silver Large Meat Platters, John Laughlin, Dublin, circa 1760

of shaped oval outline, applied reeded rims wrapped with beaded ribbons with large shells at each end and smaller shells at intervals at the sides, engraved with contemporary arms under coronets, marked on bases with maker's mark only, one with traces of earlier Britannia standard London marks suggesting reshaping from earlier silver

Sold Christie's, at Powerscourt, 24-25 September 1984, lot 189.

as noted re marks, slight surface wear, lightly buffed, good condition
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The arms are those of Wingfield impaling Stratford for Richard, 3rd Viscount Powerscourt, baptised 1730 and his wife Amelia, daughter of John Stratford, 1st Earl of Aldborough, whom he married in 1760.  He died in 1788, and she in 1831.

The family's estates in 1883 consisted of 40, 986 acres in Co. Wicklow, 11,641 in Co. Wexford, and 631 acres in Co. Dublin, totalling 53,258 acres, worth 16,385 pounds a year.  In 1788, upon the death of the 3rd Viscount, the owner of the present lot, the estate was reported to have been worth 14,000 pounds a year (The Complete Peerage).

Originally designed by Richard Castle and incorporating a 13th century castle, Powerscourt underwent many changes in the 18th century.  Powerscourt was famous for its gardens which included a fountain of Aeolus comprising Italian 17th century bronze sculptures from the Duke of Litta's palace in Milan to the Palais Royal, Paris and thence sold by Jerome Napoleon to Lord Powerscourt.  George IV attended a banquet at the estate during a visit to Ireland.  Powerscourt was destroyed by fire in 1974 and remained as a shell until 1996 at which t.mes it was renovated.  Today the estate is a popular tourist attraction and includes a Ritz Carlton hotel and a golf course.

The borders relate to those used by George Wickes, goldsmith to the Prince of Wales, for the famous Leinster service supplied to the Earl of Kildare, later Duke of Leinster, between 1745-1747.