A set of five George IV silver dinner plates, Paul Storr, London, 1820

shaped circular, leaf-capped gadrooned borders, the rims engraved with a coat-of-arms

all with good clear hllamrks on underside, surface scratches and dents commensurate with age, applied borders and engravings in crisp condition, overall good.
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The arms are those of Lane quartering Fox impaling Pitt for James Lane-Fox of Bramham Park, Yorkshire, sometime M.P. for Horsham, Sussex. He married on 23 July 1789 the Hon. Marcia Lucy Pitt (d. 1822), youngest daughter of 1^st Baron Rivers. Mr Lane-Fox, a friend of George IV, died in 1821 leaving the bulk of his estate to his eldest child, George Lane-Fox, widely known as 'The Gambler,' who in 1814 had married Georgiana Henrietta, only daughter of Edward Pery Buckley by his wife, Lady Georgiana West, daughter of the 2^nd Earl De La Warr. see lot 262

'James Lane Fox, Esq. nephew of Lord Bingley, died this month at his seat, Bramham Park, Yorkshire, in the 66^th year of his age... He was a most agreeable gentleman in society, being very quick in bon mots, and full of anecdote. Mr. Fox was in manners extremely polished; and he was completely master of the French and Italian languages; but rather he shunned than courted society... Within the last year, he had a pack of harriers, hoping to be able to ride with them, when the exertion of fox-hunting was beyond his strength.' (The Sporting Magazine, London, 1821, p.53)