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A SET OF FOUR GEORGE III SCOTTISH SILVER SECOND-COURSE DISHES
Lot 182

A SET OF FOUR GEORGE III SCOTTISH SILVER SECOND-COURSE DISHES

MARK OF WILLIAM DAVIE, EDINBURGH, 1771

Closed19 October 2012

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A SET OF FOUR GEORGE III SCOTTISH SILVER SECOND-COURSE DISHES
MARK OF WILLIAM DAVIE, EDINBURGH, 1771
Each shaped circular, with gadrooned borders, the rim later engraved with a coat-of-arms within foliate mantling, marked on reverses
11 in. (28 cm.) diameter; 90 oz. (2,805 gr.) (4)

Beriah Botfield, Esq. (1807-1863), Norton Hall, bequeathed to the Thynne family
Christie's, London, 13-14 June 2002, lot 410

Specialist note

The arms are those of Botfield impaling Leighton for Beriah Botfield (1807-1863) and his wife Isabella (d.1911), second daughter of Sir Baldwin Leighton, 7th Bt. (1805-1871) of Loton Park, Shropshire, whom he married in 1858.