Lot 773
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A GEORGE II SILVER TABLE PLATEAU
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 
A GEORGE II SILVER TABLE PLATEAU

MARK OF HENRY DUTTON, LONDON, 1755

Details
A GEORGE II SILVER TABLE PLATEAU
MARK OF HENRY DUTTON, LONDON, 1755
Shaped oval and on four openwork scroll, flower, foliage and dragon feet, with cast fruit above, with cast openwork scroll, flower and foliage border, the centre slightly later engraved with a coat-of-arms within elaborate drapery mantling on an ermine ground, marked on reverse and border, with detachable wood base
26¾ in. (68 cm.) diam.
weight of silver 296 oz. (9,206 gr.)
The arms are those of Moore with Coghill in pretence, for Charles, 2nd Baron Moore who was created Earl of Charleville in 1758 and his wife Hester, only surviving child of James Coghill, Esq.
Provenance
The property from the Estate of Frederick McLean Burgher, Christie's, New York, 22 October 1984, lot 285.
Literature
Christie's Review of the Season, 1984.
M. Clayton, Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver, London, 1985, fig. 2, p. 218.

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Lot Essay

Charles, son of John Moore, 1st Baron Moore, and Mary Lum, daughter of Elnathan Lum, was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and succeeded
his father as 2nd Baron in 1725, being created 1st Earl of Charleville in 1758. He served as Governor and Custos Rotulorum of King's County.
His marriage to Hester Coghill was childless and so on his death in
1764 he left his estates to John Bury, for whose son Charles the title of Earl of Charleville was recreated in 1806.

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