A SET OF THIRTY-FOUR GEORGE II SILVER DINNER PLATES

Lot 363
13.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 80 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1027780
Lot 363 | A SET OF THIRTY-FOUR GEORGE II SILVER DINNER PLATES
Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
A SET OF THIRTY-FOUR GEORGE II SILVER DINNER PLATES

MARK OF JOHN LE SAGE, LONDON, 1731

Each plain circular, engraved on the border with a coat-of-arms in foliate scroll cartouche, twelve later engraved on the reverse with initials O*B*C, marked on undersides

9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm.) diameter

452 oz.18 dwt. (14,088 gr.)





Provenance

Twelve plates:

With Crichton Brothers, London, by 1932.

Vivian Hugh Smith, 1st Baron Bicester (1867-1956).

The Rt. Hon. The Lord Bicester; Christie's, London, 27 June 1956, lot 79.

With S. J. Phillips, London, by 1956.

The set:

The Collection of the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Exhibited

London, Christie's, Art Treasures Exhibition, 1932, no. 545, lent by Crichton Brothers, the twelve.
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