A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE I PEWTER PLATES by Thomas Ridding, each engraved with the Walpole crest and inscribed HONI.SOIT.QUI.MAL.Y.PENSE, each stamped THOMAS RIDDING flanking a dragon and further stamped Ridding and X beneath a crown

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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE I PEWTER PLATES by Thomas Ridding, each engraved with the Walpole crest and inscribed HONI.SOIT.QUI.MAL.Y.PENSE, each stamped THOMAS RIDDING flanking a dragon and further stamped Ridding and X beneath a crown
9¾in. (24.5cm.) diam. (12)
Provenance
Supplied to Sir Robert Walpole, later 1st Earl of Orford (d.1745) for Houghton

Lot Essay

Thomas Ridding, almost certainly the son of Thomas Ridding, also of London, who flourished from 1674/5 to 1697, is recorded in London on 22 June 1699

These plates are part of the 'Forty six dozen and half of Pewter plates' listed in the 'Store Room' in the 1745 Inventory, and in that of 1792 as '85 pewter dishes + 10 dozen soup plates + 36 doz. of meat plates'. The 1792 inventory records 'In the press in the Maid's Room 49 round Pewter dishes 18 round ditto ... 4 old round dishes ... 36 Doz & 9 Meat Plates'

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