A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER OCTAGONAL SECOND-COURSE DISHES

Lot 155
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Lot 155 | A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER OCTAGONAL SECOND-COURSE DISHES
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£ 20 000 – 30 000
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.





Provenance

Mathew Forde M.P. (1726-1795), of Seaforde, co. Down.

A Gentleman; Christie's, London, 11 July 1990, lot 189.



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