MARK OF EDWARD WAKELIN, LONDON, 1749

Details

A GEORGE II SILVER SECOND COURSE DISH
MARK OF EDWARD WAKELIN, LONDON, 1749
Circular, with shaped gadrooned rim, the border engraved with coat-of-arms within foliate and drapery manteling, marked underneath, further engraved No. 2 and with scratch weight 85 = 2
17 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) diameter; 75 oz. 8 dwt. (2,345 gr.)

Provenance

Acquired from Walter H. Willson Ltd., London, August 1961.

Literature

D. Fennimore et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Decorative Arts, New York, 1992, vol. IV, p. 403, no. 462 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

The arms are those of Hill with Stafford in pretence for Arthur Hill of Brynkinalt, later 1st Viscount Dungannon (d.1771) and his second wife Anne, daughter and heiress of Edmund Francis Stafford of Mount Stafford, co. Antrim, whom he married in 1737. On inheriting the estates of his maternal grandfather he assumed the name Hill Trevor by Act of Parliament in 1759.

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