A PAIR OF EARLY ARMORIAL PLATES

CIRCA 1720

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A PAIR OF EARLY ARMORIAL PLATES
Circa 1720
With the arms of Pitt with Ridgeway in pretence, the stork crest repeated four times around the rim flanked by green acanthus leaves, the coronets in brown overlaying iron-red to approximate scarlet
8¾in. (22.2cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

Thomas Pitt of Blandford married Lady Frances Ridgeway in 1717 and was created Baron Londonderry in 1719. His father, a Governor of Fort St. George India, had fostered the family fortune when he sold a Indian diamond (still in the Crown of France) to the French royal family for a huge profit. His nephew was to become the famous statesman and Prime Minister. See D.S. Howard, op. cit., p. 184

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