Property from the Alan and Simone Hartman Collection
Royal: A Set of Twelve William IV Silver Dinner Plates, William Bateman, Retailed by Rundell, Bridge & Rundell, London, 1837
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April 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Current Bid
12,000 USD
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Description
elaborate gadroon rims with large shellwork cartouches at intervals, rims engraved with the cypher of Queen Adelaide within a garter under the Royal crown, base later engraved H.B. AUG. 9 1899, marked on bases with King's head and stamped with Latin signature of Rundells
330 oz
10270 g
diameter 10 ½ in.
26.7 cm
Probably Earl of Londesborough, sold Christie's, London, 18 May 1898, ''A Large Service of Plates and Dishes, &c., richly chased and weighing 10,000 Ounces, formerly the property of Queen Adelaide''
Christie's, London, 17 March 1999, lot 44
Lyon & Turnbull, Woodstock, UK, 8 April, 2009, lot 126
These plates belong to a large service by Bateman delivered for William IV and Queen Adelaide, then by the time of these pieces for Adelaide alone. A set of ten matching plates from this service with her cypher were sold Sotheby's New York, October 26, 2005, lot 215. A soup tureen with both cyphers, 1836, was sold Sotheby's, New York, June 17, 1981, lot 59, and a pair of wine coolers with both cyphers, 1835, was sold Sotheby's, New York, April 12, 1994, lot 212.
