From a noble family
A set of four George II silver-gilt dishes, maker's mark only, WC, circa 1750
Lot Closed
January 17, 04:01 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
fluted circular form, on four scroll feet, with rope-twist borders, engraved with coats-of-arms, one marked with maker's mark only,
diameter 24cm., 9½in.
2295gr., 73¾oz.
This lot will be on view in our New Bond Street galleries on 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 15th, 16th and 17th January 2024.
Philip, Viscount Royston (1720-1790),
by descent to the present owner
The arms are those of Yorke with a label of difference with those of Grey, quartering Lucas and another, in pretence for Philip, Viscount Royston (1720-1790), so styled between 1754 and 1764. In 1740 he married Lady Jemima, Marchioness Grey and Baroness Lucas (d. 1797), daughter of the 3rd Earl of Breadalbane (1696-1782), heiress to her maternal grandfather, Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent (1671-1740). The accolé arms are those of Viscount Royston’s wife, aforesaid. He succeeded as 2nd Earl of Hardwicke upon the death of his father in 1764.
For a pair of silver soup tureens, William Cripps, London, 1755, engraved with the same arms, see Christie’s, London, 14 November 2018, lot 541. The maker and date of this lot has led to the possible identification of the mark on the present dishes.