A Set of Twelve George III Silver Dinner Plates, Digby Scott & Benjamin Smith, London, 1806
Auction Closed
October 16, 06:35 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
ribbon-tied reeded rims with grapevine, engraved with contemporary arms, marked on bases
282 oz 10 dwt
8783 g
Diameter 10 ¼ in.
26 cm
Ten plates from this service were sold at Sotheby's, London, 20 June 1974, lot 137
The arms are those of Bagot of Bleithfield, Co. Stafford, impaling Fitzroy, for William 2nd Baron Bagot, L.L.D., F.S.A., F.L.S, F.I.S, F.H.S, (b. 1773), and his 1st wife Hon. Emily Fitzroy, 4th daughter of Charles, 1st Lord Southampton, married in 1799. She died in 1800, and he then married secondly in 1807 Lady Louisa Legge, eldest daughter of George, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth.
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