Live Auction 16719The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller: English & European Furniture, Ceramics and Decorations, Part I
A GEORGE II SILVER SECOND COURSE DISH
Lot 172

A GEORGE II SILVER SECOND COURSE DISH

MARK OF EDWARD WAKELIN, LONDON, 1749

Closed9 May 2018

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A GEORGE II SILVER SECOND COURSE DISH
MARK OF EDWARD WAKELIN, LONDON, 1749
Circular, with shaped gadrooned rim, the border engraved with coat-of-arms within foliate and drapery manteling, marked underneath, further engraved No. 2 and with scratch weight 85 = 2
17 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) diameter; 75 oz. 8 dwt. (2,345 gr.)

Acquired from Walter H. Willson Ltd., London, August 1961.

Specialist note

The arms are those of Hill with Stafford in pretence for Arthur Hill of Brynkinalt, later 1st Viscount Dungannon (d.1771) and his second wife Anne, daughter and heiress of Edmund Francis Stafford of Mount Stafford, co. Antrim, whom he married in 1737. On inheriting the estates of his maternal grandfather he assumed the name Hill Trevor by Act of Parliament in 1759.