Lot Essay
The arms are those of the Earl of Thanet
These meat-dishes were evidently made as additions to the famous Thanet dinner service, struck with the mark of Paul De Lamerie and made between 1742 and 1746 for Sackville Tufton, 7th Earl of Thanet, the eminent politician and classical scholar. Most of the service descended in the family utnil sold by the Trustees of the 3rd Baron Hothfield's Will Trust, Sotheby's, London, November 22, 1984.
These meat-dishes were evidently made as additions to the famous Thanet dinner service, struck with the mark of Paul De Lamerie and made between 1742 and 1746 for Sackville Tufton, 7th Earl of Thanet, the eminent politician and classical scholar. Most of the service descended in the family utnil sold by the Trustees of the 3rd Baron Hothfield's Will Trust, Sotheby's, London, November 22, 1984.