A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER-GILT DINNER-PLATES
A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER-GILT DINNER-PLATES
A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER-GILT DINNER-PLATES
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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER-GILT DINNER-PLATES

MARK OF HENRY NUTTING, LONDON, 1807

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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER-GILT DINNER-PLATES
MARK OF HENRY NUTTING, LONDON, 1807
Circular, with reeded borders, each engraved with coat-of-arms, marked underneath borders
9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm.) diameter
218 oz. 14 dwt. (6,802 gr.)
The arms are those of Chichester of Arlington Court quartering Palmer impaling Hamilton for John Palmer Chichester (1769-1823), Col. of the Royal Cardigan Rifle Corp., who married Agnes, daughter of James Hamilton of Bangour in 1793. Between 1820 and 1823 Col. Chichester had Arlington Court, Devon, rebuilt by the Barnstaple architect Thomas Lee, a pupil of Sir John Soane.
Provenance
Christie's, London, 2 December 1981, lot 105.
Diane Star Heller, Miami Beach; Sotheby's, New York, 23 October 2006, lot 187.

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