A SET OF EIGHTEEN GEORGE III SILVER DINNER-PLATES

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A SET OF EIGHTEEN GEORGE III SILVER DINNER-PLATES
MARK OF ROBERT AND THOMAS MAKEPEACE, LONDON, 1794
Circular and with a ribbon-tied reeded border, twelve engraved with a coat-of-arms below an earl's coronet, six later engraved with two coats-of-arms accolé below an earl's coronet, marked on the back, each further engraved with a number and a scratchweight 'No 24 18"10'; 'No 25 18"16'; 'No 26 19"9'; 'No 27 19"2'; 'No 28 19"1'; 'No 29 19"6'; 'No 30 20"3'; 'No 31 19"5'; 'No 32 19"10'; 'No 33 18"6'; 'No 34 19"0'; 'No 35 19"0'; No 36'; 'No 37 19"19'; 'No 40 19"12'; 'No 48 18"11'; 'No 63 19"3' and 'No 70 19"6'
10 in. (25.2 cm.) diam.
328 oz. (10,215gr.)
The arms on twelve are those of Pratt quartering Jeffreys with Molesworth in pretence and the arms on six are those of Pratt quartering Jeffreys accolé with those of Pratt quartering Jeffreys with Molesworth in pretence, all for John, 2nd Earl Camden (1759-1840) and his wife Frances (d.1829). (18)

John, 2nd Earl Camden, later 1st Marquess Camden (1759-1840)
then by descent to
The Most Hon. Marquess Camden, D.L., J.P.; Sotheby's London, 23 January 1964, lot 75