A SET OF SIX GEORGE III SILVER MEAT-DISHES AND A GEORGE III SILVER MAZARINE
THE MEAT-DISHES MARK OF ROBERT SHARP, LONDON, 1792, THE MAZARINE MARK OF THOMAS ELLERTON AND RICHARD SIBLEY, LONDON, 1803
Plain oval and with reed-and-tie borders, each engraved with a coat-of-arms below an earl's coronet, marked underneath, the meat-dishes further engraved with scratchweights '54"16; '56"7; '40"11'; '38"13'; '38"7' and '39"10'
Two 17 ¼ in. (44.2 cm.); four 15 in. (38 cm.) wide
284 oz. 2 dwt. (8,836 gr.)
The arms are those of Pratt quartering Jeffreys with Molesworth in pretence, for John, 2nd Earl Camden (1759-1840) and his wife Frances (d.1829), daughter and heir of William Molesworth of Wembury, co. Devon, whom he married in 1785. He inherited the earldom and the family estates on the death of his father in 1794. He was later created 1st Marquess Camden in 1812. He was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1795-1798.
A SET OF SIX GEORGE III SILVER MEAT-DISHES AND A GEORGE III SILVER MAZARINE
THE MEAT-DISHES MARK OF ROBERT SHARP, LONDON, 1792, THE MAZARINE MARK OF THOMAS ELLERTON AND RICHARD SIBLEY, LONDON, 1803
Plain oval and with reed-and-tie borders, each engraved with a coat-of-arms below an earl's coronet, marked underneath, the meat-dishes further engraved with scratchweights '54"16; '56"7; '40"11'; '38"13'; '38"7' and '39"10'
Two 17 ¼ in. (44.2 cm.); four 15 in. (38 cm.) wide
284 oz. 2 dwt. (8,836 gr.)
The arms are those of Pratt quartering Jeffreys with Molesworth in pretence, for John, 2nd Earl Camden (1759-1840) and his wife Frances (d.1829), daughter and heir of William Molesworth of Wembury, co. Devon, whom he married in 1785. He inherited the earldom and the family estates on the death of his father in 1794. He was later created 1st Marquess Camden in 1812. He was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1795-1798.
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