APPARENTLY UNMARKED, POSSIBLY MID 18TH CENTURY

This dish relates to a set of four dessert-dishes by Daniel Smith and Robert Sharp, 1764 described as '...set with strawberries, snails, lizard, bees, and a beetle; leaf and branch feet..' see A. E. Jones, Catalogue of Plate Belonging to the Duke of Portland, London, 1935, p. 13. Later hallmarked copies include one sold from the Oakwood Collection, Christie's, London 10 June 2008, lot 46, and another illustrated in V. Brett, The Sotheby's Directory of Silver, 1600-1940, 1986, p. 262, no. 1189.