Lot Essay
The arms are those of Warren as borne by Sir George Warren, created a Knight of the Bath in 1761.
This form of meat dish with shell handles appears to have been first used by Paul de Lamerie and George Wickes. A pair of meat dishes by the latter, of 1741, were sold in these Rooms from a collection of the late Antinor Patino, October 26, 1986, lot 34. A set of the same form by Lamerie of the same year is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Gift of George D. Widener and Elenor W. Dickson, 1958). Examples by Edward Wakelin and Charles Frederick Kandler are also known.
This form of meat dish with shell handles appears to have been first used by Paul de Lamerie and George Wickes. A pair of meat dishes by the latter, of 1741, were sold in these Rooms from a collection of the late Antinor Patino, October 26, 1986, lot 34. A set of the same form by Lamerie of the same year is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Gift of George D. Widener and Elenor W. Dickson, 1958). Examples by Edward Wakelin and Charles Frederick Kandler are also known.