A GEORGE III SILVER MEAT DISH AND MAZARINE

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A GEORGE III SILVER MEAT DISH AND MAZARINE
MAKER'S MARK OF WILLIAM BURWASH, LONDON, 1817

OVAL, THE MEAT DISH WITH FLUTED BORDER, THE MAZARINE PIERCED WITH SCROLLS AND STYLISED ORNAMENT, THE MEAT DISH ENGRAVED WITH ARMS ACOLLé AND WITH A CREST WITHIN THE COLLAR OF ST PATRICK, THE MAZARINE ENGRAVED IN THE CENTRE WITH A COAT-OF-ARMS, MARKED ON REVERSES - THE DISH 21¾IN. (55.5CM.) LONG, THE MAZARINE 19IN. (48.5CM.) LONG
144OZS. (4,500GRS.)

THE ARMS ARE THOSE OF TALBOT IMAPLING LAMBART FOR CHARLES, 2ND EARL TALBOT K.G. (1777-1849) AND HIS WIFE FRANCES THOMASINE (D.1819), DAUGHTER OF CHARLES LAMBART OF BEAUPARC, CO. MEATH, WHOM HE MARRIED IN 1800.

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THIRTY-SIX DINNER PLATES FROM THE SAME SERVICE THE PROPERTY OF THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY, WAS SOLD IN THESE ROOMS, 17 OCTOBER 1962,LOT 141-143

CHARLES TALBOT WAS EDUCATED AT CHRIST CHURCH COLLEGE, OXFORD. HE LEFT IN 1797 AND SOON JOINED LORD WHITWORTH'S EMBASSY IN RUSSIA AS A VOLUNTARY ATTACHé. RETURNING TO ENGLAND IN 1800, HE DEVOTED HIMSELF TO THE IMPROVEMENTS OF HIS ESTATES AND THE GENERAL PROMOTION OF AGRICULTURE IN ENGLAND. IN 1817 HE BECAME LORD LIEUNTANT OF IRELAND, A POST HE HELD UNTIL HIS DEATH. HIS SECOND SON HENRY, WHO SUCCEEDED ON HIS FATHER'S DEATH IN 1849, WAS ELEVATED SEVEN YEARS LATER

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