THE PROPERTY OF A LADY OF TITLE
A pair of George III silver entree dishes and covers

THE COVERS WITH MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN WAKELIN AND WILLIAM TAYLOR, LONDON, 1791, THE DISHES AND HANDLES WITH MAKER'S MARK OF DIGBY SCOTT AND BENJAMIN SMITH, LONDON, 1806

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A pair of George III silver entree dishes and covers
the covers with maker's mark of John Wakelin and William Taylor, London, 1791, the dishes and handles with maker's mark of Digby Scott and Benjamin Smith, London, 1806
The shaped-circular dishes with shell, foliage and gadrooned border, the fluted domed covers with gadrooned borders and detachable palmette and entwined serpent handles, the covers each engraved with a coat-of-arms within drapery mantling beneath Earl's coronet, the dishes with a crest beneath Earl's coronet, marked on dishes, covers and handles
11½in. (29cm.) diam.
150ozs. (4,969grs.)

The arms are those of Bennet quartering others with Colebrooke in pretence for Charles, 4th Earl of Tankerville (1743-1822) and his wife Emma, younger daughter and co-heir of Sir James Colebrook 1st Bt., whom he married in 1771. Their eldest son Charles, Augustus, later 5th Earl of Tankerville (1776-1859) married Corisande Armandine Léonie Sophie (d.1865), daughter of Antoine, Duc de Gramont, in 1806. (2)
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Charles, 4th Earl of Tankerville (1743-1822) and then by descent