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A GEORGE I SILVER VEGETABLE DISH AND COVER
MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE, LONDON, CIRCA 1720
Plain circular and with two bracket handles, the slightly domed cover applied with strapwork and with detachable baluster finial, the cover and body engraved with a coat-of-arms within a shell, scroll, brickwork and husk cartouche, maker's mark only on cover, the dish unmarked 29.5 cm (11½ in) diam.
2,950 gr
The arms are those of Monson impaling Watson for John Monson Esq, later 5th Bt., and his wife Lady Margaret Watson, youngest daughter of the 1st Earl of Rockingham, whom he married in 1725. He was later elevated to the peerage as Baron Monson of Burton, Co. Lincoln in 1728
MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL DE LAMERIE, LONDON, CIRCA 1720
Plain circular and with two bracket handles, the slightly domed cover applied with strapwork and with detachable baluster finial, the cover and body engraved with a coat-of-arms within a shell, scroll, brickwork and husk cartouche, maker's mark only on cover, the dish unmarked 29.5 cm (11½ in) diam.
2,950 gr
The arms are those of Monson impaling Watson for John Monson Esq, later 5th Bt., and his wife Lady Margaret Watson, youngest daughter of the 1st Earl of Rockingham, whom he married in 1725. He was later elevated to the peerage as Baron Monson of Burton, Co. Lincoln in 1728