Live Auction 6258Mount Congreve: The London Sale
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER MEAT-DISHES FROM THE SMITH SERVICE
Lot 47

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

MARK OF AUGUSTIN LE SAGE, LONDON, 1774

Closed23 May 2012

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER MEAT-DISHES FROM THE SMITH SERVICE
MARK OF AUGUSTIN LE SAGE, LONDON, 1774
Elongated octagonal with guilloché border, engraved with the Royal arms flanked by the initials 'AR', further engraved with a crest, each marked underneath
13½ in. (34.2 cm.) wide
67 oz. 6 dwt. (2,094 gr.) (2)

Thomas Assheton Smith (1725-1774), grandson of John Smith (1655-1723), Speaker of the House of Commons, who assumed the additional name of Smith in 1774 following the death of his maternal uncle, William Smith in 1773 and then by descent, father to son, until his grandson'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 106.