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TWO WITH MAKER'S MARK OF DIGBY SCOTT AND BENJAMIN SMITH, LONDON, 1803, THREE WITH MAKER'S MARK OF ROBERT HENNELL, LONDON, 1837
Details
A Pair of George III silver-gilt dessert stands and a set of three matching Victorian silver-gilt dessert stands
Two with maker's mark of Digby Scott and Benjamin Smith, London, 1803, three with maker's mark of Robert Hennell, London, 1837
Circular and each on spreading foot, cast and chased with a band of acanthus foliage, the dish applied with openwork vine border, with reeded rims, the centres each engraved with a coat-of-arms within ther Garter motto, with duke's coronet above, each marked on rim, the two larger on foot, the three smaller on underside of dish
11.7/8in. (30.5cm.) diam.
176ozs. (5,482gr.) (5)
Two with maker's mark of Digby Scott and Benjamin Smith, London, 1803, three with maker's mark of Robert Hennell, London, 1837
Circular and each on spreading foot, cast and chased with a band of acanthus foliage, the dish applied with openwork vine border, with reeded rims, the centres each engraved with a coat-of-arms within ther Garter motto, with duke's coronet above, each marked on rim, the two larger on foot, the three smaller on underside of dish
11.7/8in. (30.5cm.) diam.
176ozs. (5,482gr.) (5)
Provenance
George, 6th Duke of Leeds (1775-1838)
Miss E. M. Gibbons; Sotheby's London 1 February 1973, lot 148, (the pair of 1803)
Miss E. M. Gibbons; Sotheby's London 1 February 1973, lot 148, (the pair of 1803)
Literature
V. Brett, The Sotheby's Directory of Silver 1600-1940, London, 1986, p. 258, illustrated.