DOUZE ASSIETTES DE TABLE DE PROVENANCE ROYALE EN ARGENT D`ÉPOQUE GEORGE I - photo 1
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DOUZE ASSIETTES DE TABLE DE PROVENANCE ROYALE EN ARGENT D`ÉPOQUE GEORGE I - photo 3
DOUZE ASSIETTES DE TABLE DE PROVENANCE ROYALE EN ARGENT D`ÉPOQUE GEORGE I - photo 4
DOUZE ASSIETTES DE TABLE DE PROVENANCE ROYALE EN ARGENT D`ÉPOQUE GEORGE I - photo 5

DOUZE ASSIETTES DE TABLE DE PROVENANCE ROYALE EN ARGENT D`ÉPOQUE GEORGE I

Lot 79
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Lot 79 | DOUZE ASSIETTES DE TABLE DE PROVENANCE ROYALE EN ARGENT D'ÉPOQUE GEORGE I
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€ 40 000 – 60 000
DOUZE ASSIETTES DE TABLE DE PROVENANCE ROYALE EN ARGENT D'ÉPOQUE GEORGE I
Par Benjamin Pyne, Londres, 1717, Britannia Standard
Circulaires, unies, gravées sur le bord du cimier du Prince de Galles sur une devise 'ICH DIEN', poinçons sous les bords: ville, titre, lettre-date et maître-orfèvre; chacune numerotée et gravée en dessous de son poids: No 85 20:5, No 86 20:4, No 90 20:3, No 92 20:4, No 95 20:5, No 96 18:17, No 98 20:8, No 99 20:2, No 100 20:3, No 101 19:19, No 103 20:6 and No 104 20:2
7403 g. (238 oz.)
Les armoiries sont celles de George Auguste, prince de Galles (1683-1760).




Provenance

George Auguste (1683-1760), Prince de Galles, puis George II roi d'Angleterre et d'Irelande, Electeur de Hanovre.
The Property of the Royal House of Hanover; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 8 octobre 2005, lot 1154.
Axel Vervoordt, 2005.
Collection Onzea-Govaerts, Belgique.



Literature

Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv-Hauptstaatsarchiv Hannover, NLA-HStAH, Dep. 103, IV, Nr. 172.
Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv-Hauptstaatsarchiv Hannover, NLA-HStAH, Dep. 103, XXI, Nr. 683, p. 114; ibid., Dep. 103, IV, Nr. 175.



Further details

A SET OF TWELVE ROYAL SILVER DINNER PLATES
MARK OF BENJAMIN PYNE, LONDON, 1717, BRITANNIA STANDARD
each plain circular, engraved on the rims with the Prince of Wales feathers, and underneath with numbers and scratch weight No 103 20:6; No 98 20:8, No 95 20:5, No 101 19:19, No 100 20:3, No 92 20:4, no 86 20:4, No 90 20:3, No 85 20:5, No 104 20:2, No 96 18:17 and No 99 20:2
The arms are those of George Auguste, Prince of Wales (1683-1760).

These plates are part of a 100-piece service dated 1717-1718, with most of the large pieces made by Pierre Platel, including ten candelabras, four trays, two sauce boats, twelve salt cellars, and eight ewers (see H. Avray Tipping, "The English Silver Plate of the Duke of Cumberland," Country Life, 1924), while the plates were made by Benjamin Pyne.

This service was commissioned for the Prince of Wales, the future George II, and his court for use at Leicester House after his exile from St. James’s Palace following a conflict with his father over the choice of his son’s godfather.
This significant service was likely paid for with the private funds of the Prince of Wales and was kept separate from the royal inventories.
In 1738, the service was sent to Hanover and recorded in a special inventory. In 1770, George III had his grandfather’s service melted down to create a new service by Robert-Joseph Auguste. However, the service was eventually incorporated into the Hanoverian inventories in 1789.
By 1880, the inventory still listed 100 plates, although 44 had actually gone missing. Many of the pieces made by Platel were sold by the Duke of Brunswick in 1923/24 to the London merchants Crichton Brothers.
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