A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER-GILT DINNER-PLATES
Lot 115

A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER-GILT DINNER-PLATES

MARK OF HENRY NUTTING, LONDON, 1807

Closed9 February 2023

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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER-GILT DINNER-PLATES
MARK OF HENRY NUTTING, LONDON, 1807
Circular, with reeded borders, each engraved with coat-of-arms, marked underneath borders
9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm.) diameter
218 oz. 14 dwt. (6,802 gr.)
The arms are those of Chichester of Arlington Court quartering Palmer impaling Hamilton for John Palmer Chichester (1769-1823), Col. of the Royal Cardigan Rifle Corp., who married Agnes, daughter of James Hamilton of Bangour in 1793. Between 1820 and 1823 Col. Chichester had Arlington Court, Devon, rebuilt by the Barnstaple architect Thomas Lee, a pupil of Sir John Soane.

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