A SET OF EIGHTEEN GEORGE III SILVER DINNER-PLATES

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THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR (Lots 44-62) The Camden Service The Camden service was an exceptionally large and lavish dinner-service commissioned by John Jeffreys Pratt, 2nd Earl Camden (1759-1840) from Paul Storr, and others, in 1794, the year of his succession to the earldom. Pratt succeeded to the title on the death of his father in 1794 and followed his father, who had been Lord Chancellor and a close friend of William Pitt, into politics and served variously as Lord of the Admiralty and a Lord of the Treasury, being appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1795. Camden's term of office in Ireland was one of commotion and alarm, culminating in the rebellion of 1798. Immediately after the suppression of the rising he resigned, and in 1804 became Secretary of State for War and the Colonies under Pitt, and in 1805 Lord President of the Council. He was again Lord President from 1807 to 1812, after which date he remained for some time in the cabinet without office. In 1812 he was created Earl of Brecknock and Marquess Camden. He died on 8 October 1840, and was succeeded by his only son, George Charles (1799-1866). THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR (Lots 44-62)

A SET OF EIGHTEEN GEORGE III SILVER DINNER-PLATES

MARK OF ROBERT AND THOMAS MAKEPEACE, LONDON, 1794

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A SET OF EIGHTEEN GEORGE III SILVER DINNER-PLATES
MARK OF ROBERT AND THOMAS MAKEPEACE, LONDON, 1794
Circular and with a ribbon-tied reeded border, twelve engraved with a coat-of-arms below an earl's coronet, six later engraved with two coats-of-arms accolé below an earl's coronet, marked on the back, each further engraved with a number and a scratchweight 'No 24 18"10'; 'No 25 18"16'; 'No 26 19"9'; 'No 27 19"2'; 'No 28 19"1'; 'No 29 19"6'; 'No 30 20"3'; 'No 31 19"5'; 'No 32 19"10'; 'No 33 18"6'; 'No 34 19"0'; 'No 35 19"0'; No 36'; 'No 37 19"19'; 'No 40 19"12'; 'No 48 18"11'; 'No 63 19"3' and 'No 70 19"6'
10 in. (25.2 cm.) diam.
328 oz. (10,215gr.)
The arms on twelve are those of Pratt quartering Jeffreys with Molesworth in pretence and the arms on six are those of Pratt quartering Jeffreys accolé with those of Pratt quartering Jeffreys with Molesworth in pretence, all for John, 2nd Earl Camden (1759-1840) and his wife Frances (d.1829). (18)

Provenance

John, 2nd Earl Camden, later 1st Marquess Camden (1759-1840)
then by descent to
The Most Hon. Marquess Camden, D.L., J.P.; Sotheby's London, 23 January 1964, lot 75

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