A set of twenty-four George III silver soup plates

A set of twenty-four George III silver soup plates,

by Richard Sibley I, London 1816,

circular form, gadroon border, each later engraved with a coat-of-arms with a baron's coronet above, numbered 1-24, diameter 25cm, approx. weight 472oz. (24)

Provenance: Crichel House, Dorset, sold by order of Braganza Investments Limited.

The arms are those of Sturt quartering Napier, Gerard, Alington and Pitfield impaling Bingham for Henry, 1st Baron Alington (1825-1904) and his first wife, Lady Augusta Bingham (1832-1888), whom he married in 1853.