Silver & Collectors' Items - Day 1 and Day 2 - 16th July 2013
Lot 1307
A set of twenty-four George III silver soup plates
Estimate £10,000 - £15,000 | Hammer £17000
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Description
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.