A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III ROYAL AMBASSADORIAL SILVER-GILT DESSERT-PLATES
A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III ROYAL AMBASSADORIAL SILVER-GILT DESSERT-PLATES

MARK OF ANDREW FOGELBERG AND STEPHEN GILBERT, LONDON, 1790

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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III ROYAL AMBASSADORIAL SILVER-GILT DESSERT-PLATES
MARK OF ANDREW FOGELBERG AND STEPHEN GILBERT, LONDON, 1790
Each shaped circular and with ribbon-tied reeded and beaded border, engraved with the Royal arms below the Royal crown, within the Garter motto and surrounded by drapery mantling, each marked underneath, further engraved with a number and scratchweight 'N 37 14"7'; 'N 38 14"4'; 'N 39 14"7'; 'N 40 14"4'; 'N 41 14"4'; 'N 42 14"7'; 'N 43 14"5'; 'N 44 14"5'; 'N 45 14"8'; 'N 46 14"3'; 'N 47 14"6' and 'N 48 14"4'
9 1/8 in. (23 cm.) diameter
171 oz. 14 dwt. (5,339 gr.) (12)
來源
Thomas, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766-1841), as Ambassador to the Court of the Austrian Emperor Leopold II and by descent to
Andrew, Lord Bruce, later 11th Earl of Elgin (b. 1924) by whom sold
Christie's London, 28 April 1965, lot 119 or 120.

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Lord Elgin was educated at Harrow and Westminster Schools and at both St Andrews and Paris universities. He served in the Foot Guards rising to the rank of General by 1837. He served on diplomatic missions to Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, and Constantinople. He is chiefly remembered for his study of ancient Greek art and architecture and for his purchase of the 'Elgin' marbles removed from the Parthenon in Athens, whilst en route to take up the post of Ambassador to Constantinople in 1799. He succeeded his brother in 1771. He married twice: first to Mary (d.1855), only child of William Hamilton Nisbet of Dirleton and Belhaven, Haddington; they were divorced in 1808; he married second Elizabeth (d.1860), youngest daughter of J. T. Oswald, MP, of Dunnikeir, Fife, in 1810. These dessert plates, engraved with the Royal arms, were almost certainly part of the ambassadorial plate Lord Elgin would have taken to Vienna in 1791. He was sent as envoy-extraordinary to the court of the Austrian Emperor due to the sudden illness which had incapacitated the previous ambassador Sir Robert Keith.

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