A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV SILVER VEGETABLE DISHES

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A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV SILVER VEGETABLE DISHES
MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1836

Shaped circular, with gadrooned rim, the border engraved with a coat-of-arms, garter motto and marquess's coronet, marked on reverses
11¾in. (29.8cm.) diameter; 55oz. 10dwt. (1736gr.) (2)

Provenance

Sotheby's New York, April 6, 1989, lot 170

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Kennedy impaling those of Erskine for Archibald, 1st Marquess of Ailsa and 12th Earl of Lassilis, who was born in 1770. He was the son of the 11th Earl of Cassalis and Anne, his wife, daughter of John Watts of New York. He married in 1793, Margaret, second daughter of John Erskine of Dun, co. Angus. He was created a peer of the United Kingdom as Baron Ailsa in 1806 and Marquess in 1831.