A Pair of George III Silver Oval Dishes, James Young, London, 1785
Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 USD
Lot Details
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A Pair of George III Silver Oval Dishes, James Young, London, 1785
With ribbon-tied reeded rims, engraved with arms under a viscount's coronet and the Royal Badge, marked on bases. Together with a pair of matched circular dishes, also engraved with the Royal Badge, by William Pitts, London, 1790. 4 pieces.
99.7 oz
3100.6 g
length of first 13 ⅛ in.; diameter of second 11 ⅜ in.
33.5 cm; 28.8 cm
Dunrobin Castle, Scotland;
Bonham's, Dunrobin Attic Sale, London, 20 April 2021, lot 178;
Where acquired by the present collector.
The arms on the oval platters are those of Leveson-Gower for George Granville Leveson-Gower (1758–1833), when Viscount Trentham (before 1786), later Earl Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, and 1st Duke of Sutherland. The Royal Badge was probably added when he was named Ambassador to France in 1790, the date of the matching circular dishes. He was thus Ambassador for the worst of the French Revolution, and after the events of August 10, 1792, when the Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and their family were imprisoned in the Tower, Great Britain cut of diplomatic relations and George left the country.
The dishes descended in the family until the Dunrobin Castle sale.
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