A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER OCTAGONAL SECOND-COURSE DISHES
MARK OF DAVID WILLAUME II, LONDON, 1731
Octagonal and with gadrooned borders, slightly later engraved with a coat-of-arms within rococo cartouche, marked underneath
131/2 in. (34.3 cm.) wide
125 oz. 13 dwt. (3,909 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 PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER OCTAGONAL SECOND-COURSE DISHES
MARK OF DAVID WILLAUME II, LONDON, 1731
Octagonal and with gadrooned borders, slightly later engraved with a coat-of-arms within rococo cartouche, marked underneath
131/2 in. (34.3 cm.) wide
125 oz. 13 dwt. (3,909 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.
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