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A SET OF TWELVE QUEEN ANNE SILVER-GILT DESSERT PLATES
A SET OF TWELVE QUEEN ANNE SILVER-GILT DESSERT PLATES
A SET OF TWELVE QUEEN ANNE SILVER-GILT DESSERT PLATES
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A SET OF TWELVE QUEEN ANNE SILVER-GILT DESSERT PLATES

LONDON, 1702, NINE WITH MARK OF JOHN BACHE, THREE WITH MARK OF JOHN WISDOME, BRITANNIA STANDARD

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A SET OF TWELVE QUEEN ANNE SILVER-GILT DESSERT PLATES
LONDON, 1702, NINE WITH MARK OF JOHN BACHE, THREE WITH MARK OF JOHN WISDOME, BRITANNIA STANDARD
Each plain circular, with moulded rims, each engraved with a coat-of-arms with earl's coronet above, marked underneath
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) diameter
126 oz. 14 dwt. (3,941 gr.)
The arms are those of Bertie quartering others with Wynn in pretence, for Robert Bertie, 17th Lord Willoughby de Eresby, 3rd Earl of Lindsey, later 1st Duke of Ancaster (1660-1723) of Grimsthorpe Castle, co. Lincoln and his first wife Mary Wynn (d.1689), daughter and sole heiress, of Sir Richard Wynn, 4th Bt, of Gwydir.
Provenance
Robert Bertie, 17th Lord Willoughby de Eresby, 3rd Earl of Lindsey, later 1st Duke of Ancaster (1660-1723) of Grimsthorpe Castle, co. Lincoln, then by descent,
The Duke of Ancaster.
Colonel Shuttleworth, Old Warden Park, Biggleswade, co Bedford,
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 31 January 1963, lot 158 (six by Bache).
Judge Irwin Untermyer (1886-1973), of New York.
with S. J. Phillips Ltd., London.
Acquired from the above by the Blaquier-Arrieta Family.
Literature
Various, The Ivory Hammer, The Year at Sotheby's 1962-1963, London, 1963, p. 168, one illustrated.
Y. Hackenbroch, English and other Silver in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, New York, 1969, no. 109.

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Lot Essay

ROBERT BERTIE, 3RD EARL OF LINDSEY
In 1702, the Earl presided over the coronation of Queen Anne as Lord Great Chamberlain. As a perquisite of this hereditary office he received a ewer and two large basins which were cited in the Jewel House records under "Coronation Claims" as follows: April 21, 1702, Delivered unto the Right Honble. The Earle of Lindsey, Lorde Greate Chamberlaine as Chief Officer of the Ewry as his Claime two large chased basons gilt, one chaced Ewre gilt - 355 oz. 4 dwt. The ewer, engraved with Royal arms, by Lewis Mettayer, remains at Grimsthorpe Castle. A sideboard dish or basin, also by Bache and similarly engraved with the Earl's own arms rather than Royal arms and thus was likely ordered en suite, was sold from the collection of Benjamin F. Edwards III in Christie's, New York, 21 May 2013, lot 185. Two jugs of 1705 were sold Sotheby's, London, 19 November 1987, lot 47.

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