A SET OF FOUR GEORGE II SILVER MEAT DISHES
MARK OF DAVID WILLAUME II, LONDON, 1731
Each octagonal with gadrooned border, slightly later engraved with a coat-of-arms within a rococo cartouche, marked underneath
133/4 in. (35 cm.) wide
163 oz. 11 dwt. (5,088 gr.)
The arms are those of Forde impaling Knox, for Mathew Forde M.P. (1726-1795), of Seaforde, co. Down and his wife Elizabeth Knox (1724-1812), daughter of Thomas Knox (d.1769), sister of 1st Viscount Northland, whom he married in 1750.
A SET OF FOUR GEORGE II SILVER MEAT DISHES
MARK OF DAVID WILLAUME II, LONDON, 1731
Each octagonal with gadrooned border, slightly later engraved with a coat-of-arms within a rococo cartouche, marked underneath
133/4 in. (35 cm.) wide
163 oz. 11 dwt. (5,088 gr.)
The arms are those of Forde impaling Knox, for Mathew Forde M.P. (1726-1795), of Seaforde, co. Down and his wife Elizabeth Knox (1724-1812), daughter of Thomas Knox (d.1769), sister of 1st Viscount Northland, whom he married in 1750.