A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER COVERED ENTREE DISHES AND COVERS

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER COVERED ENTREE DISHES AND COVERS
LONDON, 1803, MAKER'S MARK OF DIGBY SCOTT & BENJAMIN SMITH

Each rectangular with dentilated borders, the covers with removable foliate double-scroll ring handles, the interiors of the dishes engraved with a crest and with the Royal Badge enclosed by the Order of the Garter and surmounted by a crown, the covers engraved with a coat-of-arms and motto and with the Royal Armorials, marked on bodies and covers--11 5/8in. (29.5cm.)
(115 oz.)
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拍品专文

The arms are those of Frere, as born by the Rt. Hon. John Hookham Frere of Roydon Hall, Norfolk and of Finningham, Suffolk, born in 1769. He was MP for West Looe in 1796 and Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1799. He was sent as envoy to Lisbon and served as Minister to Madrid from 1802-1808. The presence of the Royal Arms on these dishes signifies that they doubtless form part of the service of plate furnished to him by the Jewel House for use while en poste in Madrid.

Frere was created Marquez de la Union in Spain and was celebrated in his time for his translation of Aristophanes. He married in 1816 Elizabeth Jemima, Countess Dowager of Erroll. He died at Malta in 1846.