A SET OF THIRTEEN OLD SHEFFIELD PLATE SOUP-PLATES
MARK OF MATTHEW BOULTON AND CO., BIRMINGHAM, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Shaped circular and with gadrooned border, engraved with a coat-of-arms, twelve marked underneath, one marked indistinctly underneath
11 ¾ in. (27 cm.) diameter
The arms are those of Hartopp quartering Cradock with Hartopp in pretence, for Sir Edmund Cradock-Hartopp (1749-1833) and his wife Anne (d.1837), daughter Joseph Hurlock and heiress of her mother Anne Hartopp, whom he married in 1777.
A SET OF THIRTEEN OLD SHEFFIELD PLATE SOUP-PLATES
MARK OF MATTHEW BOULTON AND CO., BIRMINGHAM, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Shaped circular and with gadrooned border, engraved with a coat-of-arms, twelve marked underneath, one marked indistinctly underneath
11 ¾ in. (27 cm.) diameter
The arms are those of Hartopp quartering Cradock with Hartopp in pretence, for Sir Edmund Cradock-Hartopp (1749-1833) and his wife Anne (d.1837), daughter Joseph Hurlock and heiress of her mother Anne Hartopp, whom he married in 1777.