Lot Essay
The Gibbon for whom this service was made was grandfather to Edward Gibbon, author of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. See D.S. Howard, op. cit., p. 213.
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CIRCA 1735
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TWO ARMORIAL PLATES
Circa 1735
The first with the arms of Sandilands quarterly impaling Hume, Pepdie, Polwarth and St. Clair within a distinctive blue enamel border, the other with the arms of Gibbon of Kent with famille rose peony and magnolia boughs on the rim
9 and 8.7/8in. (22.8 and 22.5cm.) diam. (2)
Circa 1735
The first with the arms of Sandilands quarterly impaling Hume, Pepdie, Polwarth and St. Clair within a distinctive blue enamel border, the other with the arms of Gibbon of Kent with famille rose peony and magnolia boughs on the rim
9 and 8.7/8in. (22.8 and 22.5cm.) diam. (2)