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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER ENTRÉE DISH COVERS FROM THE PENRHYN CASTLE SERVICE AND A PAIR OF ASSOCIATED ENTRÉE DISHES

THE COVER WITH THE MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1816, THE DISHES WITH MAKER'S MARK ONLY, CIRCA 1816

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER ENTRÉE DISH COVERS FROM THE PENRHYN CASTLE SERVICE AND A PAIR OF ASSOCIATED ENTRÉE DISHES
THE COVER WITH THE MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, 1816, THE DISHES WITH MAKER'S MARK ONLY, CIRCA 1816
Each shaped oblong, the dishes with applied shell and gadrooned border, the conforming domed cover engraved twice with a coat-of-arms, and leaf-capped ring handle with lion's mask terminals and foliage calyx, marked inside covers and on handles
11 in. (28 cm.) long
the covers 82 oz. (2,540 gr.)
The arms are those of Pennant quartering Dawkins quartering Yswittan Wyddell quartering Philip Phichdan quartering Gruffyd Lloyd quartering others impaling Bouverie for George Hay Dawkins Pennant Esq. (d.1840) and his second wife Elizabeth (d.1859), elder daughter of The Hon. William Henry Bouverie, whom he married on 4th May 1814. (2)

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拍品專文

These entrée dishes are part of a service of plate ordered by Pennant on his inheritance in 1816. Other silver from the service includes a pair of wine coolers sold Christie's New York, 21 October 2003, lot 329 and a meat dish cover sold in these rooms 11 May 1994, lot 184.R
George Hay Dawkins, second son of Henry Dawkins II of Standlynch, Wiltshire and Over Norton, Oxfordshire and his wife, Lady Juliana Colyear, daughter of Charles Colyear, second Earl of Portmore (1700-1785), inherited the Penrhyn Castle and estates on the death of his cousin, Richard Pennant (c.1737-1808). The family wealth had been founded on the Jamaican estates and the extensive slate quarries. George Hay Dawkins assumed the additional name and arms of Pennant on his inheritance in 1816. He was M.P. for Newark in Nottinghamshire from 1814-1818 and New Romney in Kent from 1820-1830. George Hay Dawkins Pennant expanded the estate by purchasing various parcels of land. He is best remembered for the building of the present Penrhyn castle to the designs of Thomas Hopper (1776-1856) in the neo-Gothic fantasty style between 1821-1836. Hopper also designed the elaborate carvings, plasterwork and mock-Norman furniture that make Penrhyn such a unique castle.

He married Sophia May (d. 1812), daughter of Cornwallis, 1st Viscount Hawarden (d. 1803) in 1807 and had two daughters who were known as the 'Slate Queens'. The elder Juliana Isabella Mary inherited Penrhyn and married Edward Douglas Gordon in 1833 and in 1841 they became the Hon. Edward and Mrs Douglas Pennant. The second daughter Emma Elizabeth Alicia (1810-1888) married Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley. He married secondly Elizabeth (1780-1859), daughter of Hon. William Henry Bouverie.

IMAGE CAPTION:
George Hay Dawkins Pennant
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