THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER DISHES
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A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER DISHES
maker's mark of Peter Archambo and Peter Meure, London, 1753
Shaped-circular and with shell and gadrooned borders, each engraved with a coat-of-arms within rococo foliate scroll and foliage cartouche, marked under base - 10in. (25.5cm.) diam.
43ozs. (1,354grs.)
The arms are those of Dawson, probably for Thomas Dawson (1725-1813), later created Baron and Viscount Cremorne. He married firstly Anne (d.1769), daughter of Thomas, 1st Earl of Pomfret and secondly Philadelphia Hannah, daughter of Thomas Freame of Philadelphia and his wife Margaretta, daughter of Williams Penn, the founder of Philadelphia, in 1770 (2)
maker's mark of Peter Archambo and Peter Meure, London, 1753
Shaped-circular and with shell and gadrooned borders, each engraved with a coat-of-arms within rococo foliate scroll and foliage cartouche, marked under base - 10in. (25.5cm.) diam.
43ozs. (1,354grs.)
The arms are those of Dawson, probably for Thomas Dawson (1725-1813), later created Baron and Viscount Cremorne. He married firstly Anne (d.1769), daughter of Thomas, 1st Earl of Pomfret and secondly Philadelphia Hannah, daughter of Thomas Freame of Philadelphia and his wife Margaretta, daughter of Williams Penn, the founder of Philadelphia, in 1770 (2)