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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER MEAT-DISHES, ONE WITH A MAZARINE FOR ALTERNATIVE USE AS A FISH-DISH

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER MEAT-DISHES, ONE WITH A MAZARINE FOR ALTERNATIVE USE AS A FISH-DISH
THE DISHES WITH MARK OF ROBERT SHARP, LONDON, 1794, THE MAZARINE WITH MARK OF THOMAS ELLERTON AND RICHARD SIBLEY, LONDON, 1803
The fish dishes oval and with ribbon-tied reeded border, the oval mazarine pierced with foliage scrolls and lattice, each engraved with a coat-of-arms below an earl's coronet, each marked on the back, the meat dishes each engraved with scratchweight '54"16' and '56"7'
15½ in. (39.3 cm.) wide
135 oz. (4,185 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). (3)

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 89 (part)

Specialist note

While the mazarine is described by John Kersey in his Dictionary of 1708 as 'Little Dishes to be set in the middle of a larger dish, for the setting out of Ragoos, or Fricassies, also a sort of small tarts fill'd with sweetmeats' they would have been used for serving fish by the middle of the 18th century, with the pierced holes allowing the juices to drain away.