Live Auction 10397Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
TWO PAIRS OF GEORGE III SILVER ENTREE-DISHES, COVERS AND OLD SHEFFIELD PLATE STANDS
Lot 623 PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
LOTS 621-625

TWO PAIRS OF GEORGE III SILVER ENTREE-DISHES, COVERS AND OLD SHEFFIELD PLATE STANDS

MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, TWO 1809 AND TWO 1810, ONE PAIR WITH MARK OF WILLIAM BATEMAN, LONDON, 1828 ON HANDLES AND BORDER BENEATH HANDLES

Closed3 June 2015

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GBP 23,750

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TWO PAIRS OF GEORGE III SILVER ENTREE-DISHES, COVERS AND OLD SHEFFIELD PLATE STANDS
MARK OF PAUL STORR, LONDON, TWO 1809 AND TWO 1810, ONE PAIR WITH MARK OF WILLIAM BATEMAN, LONDON, 1828 ON HANDLES AND BORDER BENEATH HANDLES
Each oblong and with gadrooned borders, the domed covers engraved twice with a coat-of-arms, with lion mask and foliage handles, on conforming Old Sheffield plate stands, marked on dish, inside cover and on handle, the first pair further marked on cover border
14 1/4 in. (36 cm.) wide over handles
295 oz. 10 dwt. (9,192 gr.)
The arms are those of Neave impaling Digby for Sir Thomas Neave, 2nd Bt. (1761-1848) and his wife Francis Caroline (d.1835), daughter of the Very Rev. Hon. William Digby, Dean of Durham, whom he married in 1791.

Sir Thomas Neave, 2nd Bt. (1761-1848), of Dagnam Park, Essex and then by descent.

Specialist note

Sir Thomas Neave 2nd Bt. (1761-1848), in common with his father was a fellow of the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. He travelled on the Continent acquiring many works of art including a considerable quantity of stained glass thought to have come from Louvain Cathedral. Amongst his acquisitions of plate were a magnificent pair of Dutch silver wall sconces by the 17th century master goldsmith Adrian Van Vianen dated 1622 (Sotheby's, London, 17 June 1971, lot 126) and a French silver basket, Paris, 1638, sold Christie's Geneva, 15 May 1995, lot 168.