Property from a West Country manor house
A pair of George III silver meat dishes, Thomas Heming, London, 1774
Lot Closed
June 9, 01:43 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description
Shaped-oval form, with gadroon borders, engraved with a crest below a baron's coronet,
53cm, 21in. long
4859gr., 156oz
Sotheby's, London, 8 June 1995, lot 108 (part)
The arms on the covers are those of King with Byron in pretence for William, lst Earl of Lovelace (1805-93 who married Augusta Ada, only daughter of the poet Lord Byron on 8 July 1835. The title of Lovelace was chosen in consequence of his wife Is relationship through her mother to the Barons Lovelace of Hurley, a barony which became extinct on the death of the sixth baron in 1736. John Lovelace, 4th Baron Lovelace was Governor of New York in 1708-09 as his grandfather, the Hon Francis Lovelace had been from 1668 to 1673.