Live Auction 21907Bayreuth: A Connoisseur's Collection of English Silver and Gold Boxes
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER DISH RINGS
Lot 96

A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER DISH RINGS

MARK OF JOHN ROMER, LONDON, 1765

Closed7 July 2023

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GBP 8,000–12,000

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER DISH RINGS
MARK OF JOHN ROMER, LONDON, 1765
Spool-shaped and with acanthus foliage rims, the sides pierced and chased with foliate Vitruvian scrolls, each engraved with a crest with duke's coronet above, engraved on underside the rim with initial D on one and P on the other and a partially legible scratchweight, marked on rims
9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) diameter
50 oz. 7 dwt. (1,567 gr.)
The crest is that of Scott, for the Dukes of Buccleuch, almost certainly for Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch K.T., K.G. (1746-1812).

Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch K.T., K.G. (1746-1812).
A Gentleman; Christie's, London, 18 December 1997, lot 137.

Specialist note


These dish rings, conceived in the classical style, derive from classical hollow-sided or waisted altar pedestals. They are embellished with a fretted ribbon guilloche of acanthus flowers emerging from Vitruvian acanthus-wrapped wave scrolls. A similar dish ring of the same year was sold Christie's New York, 22 October 1984, lot 79. Similarly decorated, it was further fitted with a ring supporting three burners and a detachable part-wood side handle. Another related dish ring by Matthew Boulton of Birmingham, 1774, is illustrated in R. Rowe, Adam Silver, London, 1965, pls. 54 and 55B.

Henry Scott, 3rd Buke of Buccleuch, after Thomas Gainsborough © National Portrait Gallery, London