A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER DINNER-PLATES

MARK OF JOHN PARKER AND EDWARD WAKELIN, LONDON, 1770

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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER DINNER-PLATES
MARK OF JOHN PARKER AND EDWARD WAKELIN, LONDON, 1770
Each shaped circular with a gadrooned rim, engraved with a coat-of-arms below an earl's coronet, each marked on the reverse, each further numbered and engraved with a scratchweight 'N^o 1 18=2'; 'N^o 4 17=14'; 'N^o 16 18=8'; 'N^o 19 17=17'; 'N^o 23 18=9'; 'N^o 27 18=4'; 'N^o 38 18=2'; 'N^o 39 18=8';'N^o 40 18=11';' N^o 41 18=3'; 'N^o 44 18=3' and 'N^o 48 18=0'
9 7/8 in. (25 cm.) diam.
209 oz. (6,495 gr.)
The arms are those of Bligh quartering others with Stoyte in pretence for John, 3rd Earl of Darnley, (1719-1781) and his wife Mary, (d.1803), daughter and heir of John Stoyte Esq. of Street, Westmeath, whom he married in 1766. (12)

Provenance

Commissioned from John Parker and Edward Wakelin by John, 3rd Earl of Darnley, (1719-1781) and delivered on 29 March 1771.

Literature

John Parker and Edward Wakelin's, Gentleman's Ledger, folio 166

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Lot Essay

These dinner plates were part of a set of four dozen dinner plates delivered as part of a large order of silver which also included "two large gadroon'd waiters', '20 round two oval gadroon'd dishes', 'Four do. [ditto] 4 pincushion comport dishes', '4 round ribbe'd do [ditto], '2 round baking dishes' and 'a fish plate'. Together with the silver was an order for an 'iron wainscot chest for y/se plates & dishes' which cost £5 10 shillings and '20 bays [sic.] Bags at 40 shillings. The engraving of the various coats-of-arms, crests and coronets cost £19 15 shillings and the cost of the silver service, which amounted to over 2,160 oz. was in excess of £760.

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