Live Auction 6258Mount Congreve: The London Sale
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER MEAT-DISHES FROM THE SMITH SERVICE
Lot 46

A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER MEAT-DISHES FROM THE SMITH SERVICE

MARK OF THOMAS HEMING, LONDON, 1777

Closed23 May 2012

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GBP 16,250

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER MEAT-DISHES FROM THE SMITH SERVICE
MARK OF THOMAS HEMING, LONDON, 1777
Elongated octagonal with guilloché border, engraved with the Royal arms flanked by the initials 'AR', further engraved with a crest, each marked underneath
16½ in. (42 cm.) wide
81 oz. (2,522 gr.) (2)

Thomas Assheton Smith (1752-1828), great grandson of John Smith (1655-1723), Speaker of the House of Commons, then by descent to his son's widow, who left the Welsh estates to her husband's great-nephew on her death in 1858
George William Duff-Assheton-Smith (1848-1904) and then by descent to his great nephew
Sir Michael Duff, 3rd Bt. (1907-1980).
Sir Michael Duff, Bt.; Christie's London, 10 December 1958, lot 107.