Live Auction 6258Mount Congreve: The London Sale
A SET OF FOUR GEORGE II SILVER SECOND-COURSE DISHES FROM THE SMITH SERVICE
Lot 51

A SET OF FOUR GEORGE II SILVER SECOND-COURSE DISHES FROM THE SMITH SERVICE

MARK OF DAVID WILLAUME, LONDON, 1727, BRITANNIA STANDARD

Closed23 May 2012

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GBP 8,750

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A SET OF FOUR GEORGE II SILVER SECOND-COURSE DISHES FROM THE SMITH SERVICE
MARK OF DAVID WILLAUME, LONDON, 1727, BRITANNIA STANDARD
Each octagonal with guilloché border, engraved with the Royal arms flanked by the initials 'AR', further engraved with a crest, each marked underneath, three further engraved with a scratchweight '33=11'; '32=15' and '34=8'
11½ in. (29.2 cm.) wide
118 oz. (3,672 gr.) (4)

Captain William Smith, son of John Smith (1655-1723), Speaker of the House of Commons, then by descent to his nephew
Thomas Assheton Smith (1725-1774), 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 128.