A FINE PAIR OF WILLIAM III SILVER DINNER PLATES
A FINE PAIR OF WILLIAM III SILVER DINNER PLATES

MARK OF GEORGE GARTHORNE, LONDON, 1696

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A FINE PAIR OF WILLIAM III SILVER DINNER PLATES
Mark of George Garthorne, London, 1696
Circular with reeded borders, each engraved with a coat-of-arms, each marked on border
9½in. (24.1cm.) diameter; 23oz. 10dwt. (737gr.) (2)

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Bennet impaling Bennet quartering another for William Bennet Esq. (d. 1707) and his wife Patienta, sister and heir of Col. Thomas Bennet, of Pythouse, whom he married in 1686.


A set of four dinner plates from the same service sold at Christie's, London, December 18, 1997, lot 162.

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