A GEORGE I PLAIN CIRCULAR SECOND COURSE DISH, with moulded rim, engraved with a coat-of-arms, crest and Earl's coronet, by Paul de Lamerie, 1725, Britannia Standard

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A GEORGE I PLAIN CIRCULAR SECOND COURSE DISH, with moulded rim, engraved with a coat-of-arms, crest and Earl's coronet, by Paul de Lamerie, 1725, Britannia Standard
12in. (30.4cm.)
(36ozs.)

The arms are those of Mildmay with Schomberg in pretence for Benjamin Mildmay, Earl Fitzwalter (1672-1756) son of Benjamin Mildmay (1645-1679) and his wife Catherine, daughter of William Fairfax, 3rd Viscount Fairfax. He married in 1724, Frederica, eldest daughter and co-heir Meinhardt, 3rd Duke of Schomberg (1641-1719) and widow of Robert Darcy, Earl of Holderness and created Earl Fitzwalter on 16th May 1735. Swift wrote of the Earl 'so avarice a wretch that he would let his own father be buried without a coffin to save charges'

Lot Essay

A set of twelve plates also by Paul de Lamerie of 1725, matching the present dish, and obviously formed part of a dinner service is in the Sterling and Francine Clarke Art Instituite, Williamstown, Massachucsetts. One of the set is illustrated in Carver and Casey, Silver by Paul de Lamerie at the Sterling and Francine Clarke Art Institute, 1978, no. 20

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