A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER DINNER-PLATES

MARK OF JOHN PARKER AND EDWARD WAKELIN, LONDON, 1770

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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER DINNER-PLATES
MARK OF JOHN PARKER AND EDWARD WAKELIN, LONDON, 1770
Each shaped circular with a gadrooned rim, engraved with a coat-of-arms below an earl's coronet, each marked on the reverse, each further numbered and engraved with a scratchweight 'N^o 1 18=2'; 'N^o 4 17=14'; 'N^o 16 18=8'; 'N^o 19 17=17'; 'N^o 23 18=9'; 'N^o 27 18=4'; 'N^o 38 18=2'; 'N^o 39 18=8';'N^o 40 18=11';' N^o 41 18=3'; 'N^o 44 18=3' and 'N^o 48 18=0'
9 7/8 in. (25 cm.) diam.
209 oz. (6,495 gr.)
The arms are those of Bligh quartering others with Stoyte in pretence for John, 3rd Earl of Darnley, (1719-1781) and his wife Mary, (d.1803), daughter and heir of John Stoyte Esq. of Street, Westmeath, whom he married in 1766. (12)

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Commissioned from John Parker and Edward Wakelin by John, 3rd Earl of Darnley, (1719-1781) and delivered on 29 March 1771.

出版

John Parker and Edward Wakelin's, Gentleman's Ledger, folio 166

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These dinner plates were part of a set of four dozen dinner plates delivered as part of a large order of silver which also included "two large gadroon'd waiters', '20 round two oval gadroon'd dishes', 'Four do. [ditto] 4 pincushion comport dishes', '4 round ribbe'd do [ditto], '2 round baking dishes' and 'a fish plate'. Together with the silver was an order for an 'iron wainscot chest for y/se plates & dishes' which cost £5 10 shillings and '20 bays [sic.] Bags at 40 shillings. The engraving of the various coats-of-arms, crests and coronets cost £19 15 shillings and the cost of the silver service, which amounted to over 2,160 oz. was in excess of £760.