AN ENAMELLED AND GILT ARMORIAL 'ROCKEFELLER' COMPOSITE PART DINNER SERVICE decorated with landscape cartouches on a dense foliate gilt ground alternating with cartouches of birds on branches, the centre with a crested coat-of-arms, comprising:

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AN ENAMELLED AND GILT ARMORIAL 'ROCKEFELLER' COMPOSITE PART DINNER SERVICE decorated with landscape cartouches on a dense foliate gilt ground alternating with cartouches of birds on branches, the centre with a crested coat-of-arms, comprising:

Two bowls and covers with fruit finials, 14.5cm. diam.
Two large foliate-rimmed ogee cups with twin handles and matching saucer-dishes
Five graduated saucer-dishes, 16cm.-24cm. diam.
Two dessert plates, 19.5cm. diam.
A milk jug with bamboo handle, 13.5cm. high
Two cylindrical bowls with recessed rims and domed covers with fruit finials, 13cm. diam.
Ten coffee cans each with bracket handle
Two hotwater plates, each with steam vent, 28.5cm. wide
(cracks and chips), circa 1790

Provenance

From the collections of Sir Egerton Graeme

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Hamond, though not as formally granted in December 1783: see D.S.Howard, op. cit., p.696. The service was probably made for Sir Andrew Snape Hamond, a distinguished naval figure who sailed under Admiral Hawke in the Seven Years war, and commanded HMS Roebuck in the American War, being knighted in 1778. After the siege of Charleston, Sir Andrew was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, and created a baronet in 1783

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