A Set of Twelve George III Silver Dinner Plates, Paul Storr, London, 1808

circular, the molded gadroon borders with shells and double-shells flanked by acanthus at intervals, the borders engraved with arms and supporters beneath a marquess's coronet and a drapery mantle, marked on bases

arms slightly later, scratches from use, good condition, clear marks
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The arms are those of Butler, for Walter Butler, Ist Marquess of Ormonde, and his wife Anna Maria Catherine Price-Clarke, only daughter and heir of Job Hart Price-Clarke of Sutton Hall, co. Derby, whom he married on 17 March 1805.  Butler was M.P. for co. Kilkenny 1790-95, styled Viscount Thurles 1791-95, P.C. 11 July 1797, Custos Rot. and Gov. co. Kilkenny 1796-1820, K.P. 19 March 1798, and served as Lord of the Bedchamber from 1812-1813.  He was created Baron Butler of Lanthony, co. Monmouth on 20 January 1801 and Marquess of Ormonde in January 1816.  The couple died without heir, she on December 1817 at the age of twenty-eight and her husband shortly after at age fifty.  Upon Walter's 10 August 1820 death the title passed to his brother James, 2nd Marquess.