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A SET OF EIGHTEEN VICTORIAN SILVER DINNER-PLATES
Lot 178

A SET OF EIGHTEEN VICTORIAN SILVER DINNER-PLATES

MARK OF GEORGE COWIE, LONDON, 1839

Closed13 December 2018

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A SET OF EIGHTEEN VICTORIAN SILVER DINNER-PLATES
MARK OF GEORGE COWIE, LONDON, 1839
Plain circular and with ribbon-tied reeded border, each engraved with a crest below a marquess' coronet, marked underneath
9 ¾ in. (25 cm.) diameter
341 oz. 6 dwt. (10,625 gr.)

Ulick John, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde (1802-1874).
Anonymous Sale; Sotheby's, New York, 7 November 1996, lot 85.
With Smith, London

Specialist note

The crest is that of De Burgh for Ulick John, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde (1802-1874) who was Ambassador to St Petersburg from 1838 to 1841 and married Harriet (1804-1876), daughter of Prime Minister George Canning.