A SET OF FOUR GEORGE II SILVER SECOND-COURSE DISHES
MARK OF JOHN LE SAGE, LONDON, 1728
Octagonal and with gadrooned border, engraved with a coat-of-arms below a viscount's coronet, marked underneath, further engraved underneath with scratch weights '30=5; '30=11'; '30=11' and '31=8'
10 ½ in. (26.8 cm.) diameter
114 oz. 5 dwt. (3,553 gr.)
The arms are those of Hamilton impaling Bentinck, for James Hamilton, 1st Baron Claneboye and 1st Viscount of Limerick (1694-1758), later created 1st Earl of Clanbrassill and his wife Lady Harriet Bentinck, daughter of Hans William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, whom he married at The Hague in 1728
A SET OF FOUR GEORGE II SILVER SECOND-COURSE DISHES
MARK OF JOHN LE SAGE, LONDON, 1728
Octagonal and with gadrooned border, engraved with a coat-of-arms below a viscount's coronet, marked underneath, further engraved underneath with scratch weights '30=5; '30=11'; '30=11' and '31=8'
10 ½ in. (26.8 cm.) diameter
114 oz. 5 dwt. (3,553 gr.)
The arms are those of Hamilton impaling Bentinck, for James Hamilton, 1st Baron Claneboye and 1st Viscount of Limerick (1694-1758), later created 1st Earl of Clanbrassill and his wife Lady Harriet Bentinck, daughter of Hans William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, whom he married at The Hague in 1728