拍品 79
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A SET OF SEVENTEEN GEORGE III SILVER DINNER-PLATES
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A SET OF SEVENTEEN GEORGE III SILVER DINNER-PLATES

MARK OF JOHN PARKER AND EDWARD WAKELIN, LONDON, 1765

細節
A SET OF SEVENTEEN GEORGE III SILVER DINNER-PLATES
MARK OF JOHN PARKER AND EDWARD WAKELIN, LONDON, 1765
Each shaped circular and with a foliage gadrooned rim, later engraved with a crest, marked on the back, each engraved with a number and a scratchweight 'No 4', '14"1'; 'No 6', '14"2'; 'No 12', '14"13'; 'No 14', '14"8'; 'No 16', '14"4'; 'No 17', '14"2'; 'No 18', '14"5'; 'No 19', '14"6'; 'No 20', '15"0'; 'No 22', '14"1'; 'No 23', '14"0'; 'No 24', '14"3'; 'No 25', '13"9'; 'No 27', '14"2'; 'No 28', '14"12' and 'No 29', '14"5'
9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm.) diam.
230 oz. (7,150 gr.)
The crest is that of Phillipps, for Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), later created 1st Baronet in 1821. (17)
來源
Sir Thomas Phillipps 1st Bt. (1792-1872) and then by descent to his youngest daughter
Katherine (1829-1913), who married Rev. John Edward Addison Fenwick (1824-1903), and then by descent.
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拍品專文

Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872) was one of the greatest manuscript and book collectors of the 19th Century. His passion for collecting started while at Rugby School, which he entered in 1807. He was the natural son of Thomas Phillips (1742-1818), a wealthy Manchester calico manufacturer. While at University College, Oxford the rate of his collecting caused his father to complain of his son's extravagance. However, after his father's death he was able to indulge his passion to the full. With the secularization of many religious houses in France and Germany he was able to buy manuscripts and printed books of great rarity. He bought from book sellers across Europe and at the many rare books auction held in the London amassing over 60,000 manuscripts. Although he entered into negotiations at different times with the Bodleian Library, the British Museum and the Phillips family of Picton Castle, his collection remained at Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham, when he died in 1872. The collection was dispersed through a series of private and auction sales from 1885.