A SUITE OF TEN GEORGE II/III SILVER MEAT DISHES

THE TWO LARGER DISHES MARK OF ALEXANDER JOHNSTON, LONDON, 1758/1759, THE EIGHT SMALLER DISHES MARK OF SEBASTIAN AND JAMES CRESPEL, LONDON, FOUR MARKED 1772, FOUR MARKED 1774

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A SUITE OF TEN GEORGE II/III SILVER MEAT DISHES
THE TWO LARGER DISHES MARK OF ALEXANDER JOHNSTON, LONDON, 1758/1759, THE EIGHT SMALLER DISHES MARK OF SEBASTIAN AND JAMES CRESPEL, LONDON, FOUR MARKED 1772, FOUR MARKED 1774
In three sizes, each shaped oval, with molded gadrooned rims, the border engraved with a coat-of-arms, each marked on reverse, the Johnston dishes with scratch weights: the first 74 oz., the second 92 oz. 8 dwt.; the Crespell dishes numbered and with scratch weights: No. 7 20=12, No. 6 20=12, No. 3 20-7, No. 8 20=8, No. 10 27=2, No. 9 27=0, No. 11 27=6, and No. 12 27=4
Two 22 in. (55.9 cm.) long, three 14¼ in. (36.2 cm.) long, three 12½ in. (31.8 cm.) long; 350 oz. 10 dwt. (10,909 gr.) (10)

Provenance

The Estate of Charles and Yvette Bluhdorn, Sotheby's, New York, 13 October 2007, lot 48

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Lot Essay

The arms are those of Jolliffe with Twyford in pretense for Thomas Samuel, M.P., who married Ann, daughter and heir of the Rev. Robert Twyford of Kilmersdon, Somerset in 1788. Her property included the Ammerdown estate, to which Tomas added a large villa designed by James Wyatt. His great nephew Sir William Hylton Jolliffe, Bt., P.C., became 1st Baron Hylton in 1866.

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