Live Auction 3781Important Silver and Objects of Vertu
A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT SIDEBOARD DISH
Lot 81PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF JAMES ANNENBERG LA VEA, SOLD TO BENEFIT A CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT SIDEBOARD DISH

MARK OF WILLIAM PITTS, LONDON, 1809

Closed27 October 2015

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A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT SIDEBOARD DISH
MARK OF WILLIAM PITTS, LONDON, 1809
Of lobed circular form, the panels repoussé and chased with single flowers, centering a band of trailing bell flowers, enclosing a 'Tudor' rose, engraved on the reverse with Royal badge, initials IS below a Marquess' coronet and crest, marked on rim
15 ½ in. (39.5 cm.) diameter; 50 oz. 10 dwt. 1,574 (gr.)

Woolley and Wallis, 25 July 2007, lot 852
The Collection of Benjamin F. Edwards III; Christie's, New York, 26 January 2010, lot 71

Specialist note

The crest is that of Canning. The Royal badge suggests that this dish could have been a Royal gift to George Canning, Foreign Secretary and later Prime Minister. The coronet above the monogram IS is that of a Marquess, perhaps for John Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute (1883-1947), a collector of antique silver.
A pair of William Pitts silver-gilt sideboard dishes of the same design, dated 1809, is illustrated by V. Brett, The Sotheby's Directory of Silver, 1600-1940, 1986, p. 259.