A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER DINNER-PLATES

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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER DINNER-PLATES
MARK OF ROBERT AND THOMAS MAKEPEACE, LONDON, 1794
Circular and with a ribbon-tied reeded border, engraved with a coat-of-arms below an earl's coronet, marked on the back, most further engraved with a number and a scratchweight 'No 38 19"10'; 'No 39 20"11'; 'No 41 19"14'; 'No 42 20"4'; 'No 43 19"2'; 'No 44 19"6'; 'No 45 20"0'; 'No 46 20"11'; 'No 47 20"11'; 'No 55 20"7'; 'No 56 19"18' and 'No 57 20"8'
10 in. (25.2 cm.) diam.
229 oz. (7,130 gr.)
The arms are those of Pratt quartering Jeffreys with Molesworth in pretence, for John, 2nd Earl Camden (1759-1840) and his wife Frances (d.1829). (12)

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 76