A pair of George II Britannia standard silver strawberry dishes, Paul de Lamerie, London, 1729

the circular bodies with a pie crust edge and twenty-one ribbed panels engraved alternately with foliate strapwork and diaper except one engraved with a crest, the centres engraved with a coat-of-arms, the undersides engraved 'N^{o 1=18=1' and 'N 2 17=13'}

Hallmarks are clear and good. There appears to be some repair to two flutes on each of the dishes; generally engraving is still pretty crisp; the crest on one is a bit worn and the armorials have general wear commensurate with age but not seriously worn and the engraving is contemporary and lively.
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The arms are those of Vane impaling Fitzoy for Henry Vane (1705?-1758) eldest son of Gilbert, 2nd Baron Barnard whom he succeeded in 1753. He married Grace, daughter of Charles, Duke of Cleveland and Southampton on 2 December 1753, Vice Treasurer and Paymaster General of Ireland from 1742 to 1744 and a Lord of the Treasury from 1749 to 1755. On 3 April 1754 he was created Viscount Barnard of Barnard's Castle and Earl of Darlington. Walpole wrote of him 'Whenever he was drunk he told all he knew, and when he was sober, more than he new' (George II, vol.i, p.117).