A GEORGE II SILVER MEAT DISH AND A GEORGE III EXAMPLE TO MATCH FROM THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT SERVICE

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A GEORGE II SILVER MEAT DISH AND A GEORGE III EXAMPLE TO MATCH FROM THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT SERVICE

THE FIRST MARK OF WILLIAM CRIPPS, LONDON, 1759, THE SECOND MARK OF GEORGE COWLES, LONDON, 1765

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A GEORGE II SILVER MEAT DISH AND A GEORGE III EXAMPLE TO MATCH FROM THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT SERVICE
THE FIRST MARK OF WILLIAM CRIPPS, LONDON, 1759, THE SECOND MARK OF GEORGE COWLES, LONDON, 1765
Each shaped oval with a gadrooned rim, engraved with a coat-of-arms below a Duke's coronet, the back engraved with a scratchweight and an inventory number - 14in. (35.5cm.) long, 48oz.
The arms are those of England quartering France within a Garter for Henry, 5th Duke of Beaufort (1744-1803). The only son of Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort, Henry succeeded his father in October 1756 when he was only 12. In 1766 he married Elizabeth Boscawen, daughter of Hon. Edward Boscawen, Admiral of the Blue and sister to George Evelyn Boscawen, 3rd Viscount Falmouth, bearing seven sons and two daughters. (2)

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Henry, 5th Duke of Beaufort (1744-1803)
and thence by descent to the 8th Duke of Beaufort
A Nobleman; 13 June 1895, probably lot 45 (1) and lot 46 (1)

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拍品专文

There have been at least two dispersals of plate from the collection of the Dukes of Beaufort, the first following the death of the 4th Duke in 1756 when a selection was offered by the trustees at a sale held by a Mr. Prestage at his Great Rooms at the end of Savile Row, see for example a George II silver-gilt ewer and basin, Christie's London, 17 March 1999, lot 109. In the 1756 sale that lot was purchased back by the trustees on the behalf of the infant 5th Duke and finally sold, along with other plate, including the present dishes, by order of 8th Duke at Christie's, 13 June 1895.

A similar pair from the same service and also by Cripps, 1759, were sold Christie's New York, 20 April 2000, lot 254.