A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER SECOND COURSE DISHES FROM THE HILLSBOROUGH SERVICE

Lot 21
18.06.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 21 | A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER SECOND COURSE DISHES FROM THE HILLSBOROUGH SERVICE
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$ 3 000 – 5 000
Shaped circular with gadrooned rims, the borders engraved with a coat-of-arms within drapery mantling and surmounted by an earl's coronet, marked on undersides and engraved N 25 31:14 and N 26 31:4
13 in. (33 cm.) diameter
61 oz. 14 dwt. (1,919 gr.)
The arms are those of Hill impaling Fitzgerald for Wills Hill, 2nd Viscount Hillsborough and 1st Earl of Hillsborough, later 1st Marquess of Downshire (1718-1793) and his first wife Lady Margaretta Fitzgerald (d.1766), daughter of Robert Fitzgerald, 19th Earl of Kildare (1675- 1743), whom he married in 1747.
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