The Property of MR AND MRS JULIAN SALMOND
A PAIR OF VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT DESSERT DISHES
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A PAIR OF VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT DESSERT DISHES
MAKER'S MARK OF ROBERT HENNELL, LONDON, 1845
Shaped-circular and on four scroll bracket feet, with lobed sides and shaped rim, the centre engraved with two crest beneath an Earl's coronet, marked on sides - 10¾in. (27.5cm.) diam.
72ozs. (2,267grs.)
The crests are those of Robinson and de Grey for Thomas Philip Weddell, 3rd Baron Grantham and 2nd Earl de Grey (1781-1859) who had inherited the Barony on the death of his father in 1786. He had inherited a baronetcy on the death of his kinsman Sir Philip Norton 5th Bt. in 1792. He then succeeded to the Earldon of de Grey via his maternal aunt Amabel, Countess de Grey who died in 1804, when he assumed the names and arms of de Grey. He married Lady Henrietta Frances Cole, daughter of William, 1st Earl of Enniskillen, in 1805. He was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and co. Bedford (2)
MAKER'S MARK OF ROBERT HENNELL, LONDON, 1845
Shaped-circular and on four scroll bracket feet, with lobed sides and shaped rim, the centre engraved with two crest beneath an Earl's coronet, marked on sides - 10¾in. (27.5cm.) diam.
72ozs. (2,267grs.)
The crests are those of Robinson and de Grey for Thomas Philip Weddell, 3rd Baron Grantham and 2nd Earl de Grey (1781-1859) who had inherited the Barony on the death of his father in 1786. He had inherited a baronetcy on the death of his kinsman Sir Philip Norton 5th Bt. in 1792. He then succeeded to the Earldon of de Grey via his maternal aunt Amabel, Countess de Grey who died in 1804, when he assumed the names and arms of de Grey. He married Lady Henrietta Frances Cole, daughter of William, 1st Earl of Enniskillen, in 1805. He was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and co. Bedford (2)
Provenance
Thomas, 2nd Earl de Grey (1781-1859) and then by descent