A SET OF FOUR GEORGE III SILVER SUPPER DISHES

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A SET OF FOUR GEORGE III SILVER SUPPER DISHES
maker's mark of John Parker and Edward Wakelin, London, 1767

Fan-shaped and with shell and gadrooned border, later engraved with a coat-of-arms, marked on reverse, numbered and with scratch weights, N^o 1, 16=10; N^o 2, 16=7; N^o 3, 15=10; N^o 4, 16=4 - 12½in. (32.5cm.) wide
63ozs. (197grs.)

The arms are those of Bligh impaling Brownlow for John, 4th Earl of Darnley (1767-1831) and his wife Elizabeth (d. 1831), daughter of The Rt. Hon. William Brownlow of Lurgan M.P. (1726-1794) (4)

拍品专文

Lord Darnley, who had succeeded to the Earldom on the death of his father in 1781, petitioned the King in 1829, claiming the title Duke of Lennox. On the death of the Charles, 6th Duke of Lennox and 3rd Duke of Richmond the titles had passed to Charles II. With the death of the Cardinal York in 1807, the last member of the family of Charles II, the Earl had become the heir-general, being a descendant of Catherine, sister of the 6th and last Duke of Lennox. The petion was refered to the House of Lords, however no decision was forthcoming. The Earl died in 1831 when he was succeeded by Edward, his eldest son.

A similar set of fan-shaped supper dishes by Parker and Wakelin, London, 1766, engraved with the Roayl coat-of-arms was sold in these Rooms, 7 May 1952, lot 152, illustrated in E. Barr, George Wickes, Royal Goldsmith 1698-1761, New York, 1980, p.141