TWO ARMORIAL PLATES

CIRCA 1745 AND 1728

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TWO ARMORIAL PLATES
CIRCA 1745 AND 1728
The first puce and gilt with the arms of Bennet Earl of Tankerville quarterly of six impaling Colville, the other octagonal and with the arms of Lowther impaling Adams (?)
9 and 8 7/8 in. (22.9 and 22.5 cm.) diameter (2)

Provenance

Both bearing RCE collection labels; Lowther from the W. Quennell collection, sold Sotheby's London 22 June 1933
By descent to the seller

Lot Essay

Charles, 2nd Earl Tankerville, married Camilla Colville, lady of the bedchamber to Queen Caroline, in about 1725. This plate from one of about eight Chinese services ordered by the Bennet family. See D.S. Howard, op. cit., vol. I, pp. 210 and 315.

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