Lot
73
A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER DINNER-PLATES FROM THE SANDWICH SERVICE
MARK OF JOHN WAKELIN AND WILLIAM TAYLOR, LONDON, 1776
Price realised
GBP 11,250
Estimate
GBP 10,000 - GBP 15,000
A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER DINNER-PLATES FROM THE SANDWICH SERVICE
MARK OF JOHN WAKELIN AND WILLIAM TAYLOR, LONDON, 1776
Each shaped circular with a gadrooned rim, engraved with a coat-of-arms below an earl's coronet, each marked underneath, further engraved with scratchweights '17"4'; '17"8'; '16"15'; '17"5'; '17"8'; '17"9'; '17"6'; '16"9'; '16"14'; '16"18'; '17"3' and '17"'
9½ in. (24.3 cm.) diameter
195 oz. 8 dwt. (6,077 gr.)
The arms are those of Montagu quartering Monthermer for John, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792). (12)
Provenance
John, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792)
Anonymous sale; Christie's London, 22 November 1995, lot 106.