Lot Essay
Another set of twelve plates from the same service from the Le Pavillon Chougny collection were sold Christie's London, 9-10 December 2004, lot 766.
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MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1809
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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER-GILT DINNER-PLATES FROM THE PELHAM SERVICE
MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1809
Shaped circular and with leaf and gadroon rim, engraved with a coat-of-arms below a baron's coronet and with a crest within a garter and below a marquess' coronet, contained in a fitted case, marked on the back
10¼ in. (26 cm.) diam.
254 oz. (7,910 gr.)
The crest is that of Fitzmaurice, for the Marquess of Lansdowne.
The arms are those of Pelham quartering Anderson with Simpson in pretence, for Charles, 2nd Baron and later 1st Earl of Yarborough (1781-1846) and his wife Henrietta, daughter of the Hon. John Bridgeman Simpson, whom he married in 1806. He was M.P. for Great Grimsby 1803-07 and for Lincolnshire 1807-23. He was best known for his long term as Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron, and died on board his yacht Kestrell, off Vigo, Portugal. (12)
MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1809
Shaped circular and with leaf and gadroon rim, engraved with a coat-of-arms below a baron's coronet and with a crest within a garter and below a marquess' coronet, contained in a fitted case, marked on the back
10¼ in. (26 cm.) diam.
254 oz. (7,910 gr.)
The crest is that of Fitzmaurice, for the Marquess of Lansdowne.
The arms are those of Pelham quartering Anderson with Simpson in pretence, for Charles, 2nd Baron and later 1st Earl of Yarborough (1781-1846) and his wife Henrietta, daughter of the Hon. John Bridgeman Simpson, whom he married in 1806. He was M.P. for Great Grimsby 1803-07 and for Lincolnshire 1807-23. He was best known for his long term as Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron, and died on board his yacht Kestrell, off Vigo, Portugal. (12)
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