A SET OF THREE GEORGE II SILVER SECOND-COURSE DISHES
MARK OF JOHN LE SAGE, LONDON, 1728
Each octagonal and with gadrooned rim, engraved with a coat-of-arms below a viscount's coronet, each marked underneath, further engraved with scratch weights '77=9'; '76=14' and '76=9'
16 in. (40.5 cm.) diameter
211 oz. 3 dwt. (6,568 gr.)
The arms are those of Hamilton impaling Bentinck, for James Hamilton, 1st Baron Claneboye and 1st Viscount of the City 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 THREE GEORGE II SILVER SECOND-COURSE DISHES
MARK OF JOHN LE SAGE, LONDON, 1728
Each octagonal and with gadrooned rim, engraved with a coat-of-arms below a viscount's coronet, each marked underneath, further engraved with scratch weights '77=9'; '76=14' and '76=9'
16 in. (40.5 cm.) diameter
211 oz. 3 dwt. (6,568 gr.)
The arms are those of Hamilton impaling Bentinck, for James Hamilton, 1st Baron Claneboye and 1st Viscount of the City 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.