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A SET OF FOUR VICTORIAN SILVER ENTREE DISHES, COVERS, STANDS AND LAMPS
maker's mark of Robert Garrard, London, 1883
Octagonal, the stands on four leaf-capped shell and scroll feet and with plain detachable lamps, the dishes with each with two scroll bracket handles, the tented covers with ring handles, with gadrooned borders and engraved with crest, Fully marked - 11¼in. (28.5cm.) wide
195ozs. (6,082)
The crests are those of Guinness and Lee for Edward Cecil Guinness, later 1st Earl of Iveagh, K.P., G.C.V.O. (1847-1927), Chancellor of Dublin University from 1908, J.P. Co. Dublin, and High Sheriff in 1876. He was created a Baronet in 1885, and elevated to the peerage as Baron Iveagh of Iveagh in 1891. He was later advanced to a viscountcy in 1905 and to the Earldom of Iveagh in 1919. He married his cousin Adelaide Maria, daughter of Richard Samuel Guinness, M.P., of Deepwell, Co. Dublin, in 1873. (4)
maker's mark of Robert Garrard, London, 1883
Octagonal, the stands on four leaf-capped shell and scroll feet and with plain detachable lamps, the dishes with each with two scroll bracket handles, the tented covers with ring handles, with gadrooned borders and engraved with crest, Fully marked - 11¼in. (28.5cm.) wide
195ozs. (6,082)
The crests are those of Guinness and Lee for Edward Cecil Guinness, later 1st Earl of Iveagh, K.P., G.C.V.O. (1847-1927), Chancellor of Dublin University from 1908, J.P. Co. Dublin, and High Sheriff in 1876. He was created a Baronet in 1885, and elevated to the peerage as Baron Iveagh of Iveagh in 1891. He was later advanced to a viscountcy in 1905 and to the Earldom of Iveagh in 1919. He married his cousin Adelaide Maria, daughter of Richard Samuel Guinness, M.P., of Deepwell, Co. Dublin, in 1873. (4)
Provenance
Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, (1847-1927) and thence by descent to his second son,
Arthur Ernest Guinness, D.L., J.P. (1876-1949) and thence by to his eldest daughter
Aileen Sybil Mary Plunkett
Luttrellstown Castle, Christie's House Sale, 26 September 1983, lot 680
Arthur Ernest Guinness, D.L., J.P. (1876-1949) and thence by to his eldest daughter
Aileen Sybil Mary Plunkett
Luttrellstown Castle, Christie's House Sale, 26 September 1983, lot 680