A set of twelve George III silver dinner plates, John Houle, London, 1818

shaped circular, each engraved with a baron's coronet, two crests, a coat-of-arms, motto and supporters, applied gadroon, shell and foliage borders

Marks and condition good, the usual knife cuts to the surfaces, a few very minor dents, overall good condition.
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The arms are those of Wynn quartering others with Glynn in pretence for Thomas John Wynn, 2nd Baron Newborough, second but first surviving son of the 1st Baron Newborough by his second wife, the eccentic Maria Stella Petronilla, daughter of Lorenzo Chiappini, an innkeeper and gaoler, who claimed to be the daughter of Louis Philippe, Duke of Orleans. Born in 1802, he succeeded to the title upon the death of his father in 1807 and died unmarried in 1832.

For a pair of four-light candelabra, Benjamin Smith, London, 1822/23, engraved with Baron Newborough's crests, see Christie's, London, 17 November 2009, lot 362.