A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER SOUP-PLATES
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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER SOUP-PLATES

MARK OF ROBERT MAKEPEACE, LONDON, 1794

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A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER SOUP-PLATES
MARK OF ROBERT MAKEPEACE, LONDON, 1794
Circular and with a ribbon-tied reeded border, engraved with a coat-of-arms below an earl's coronet, marked on the back, each further engraved with a number and a scratchweight 'No 1 19"0'; 'No 2 19"16'; 'No 3 21"9'; 'No 4 21"15'; 'No 5 21"14'; 'No 6 21"17'; 'No 7 22"2'; 'No 8 22"3'; 'No 9 22"6'; 'No 10 22"8'; 'No 11 22"10' and 'No 12 22"18'
9 7/8 in. (25 cm.) diam.
250 oz. (7,796 gr.)
The arms are those of Pratt quartering Jeffreys with Molesworth in pretence, for John, 2nd Earl Camden (1759-1840) and his wife Frances (d.1829). (12)
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 71
Special Notice
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