Silver & Objects of Vertu - Day 3 - 2nd November 2023

Lot 2527

By Alice (Countess) Amherst, two Arts & Crafts silver-gilt dessert plates,

Estimate £250 - £300 | Hammer £277

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Description

By Alice (Countess) Amherst, two Arts & Crafts silver-gilt dessert plates,
London 1904,
circular form, spot-hammered decoration, one initialled ED and numbered 2 to the underside, the other initialled S beneath an Earl's coronet, diameter 21.8cm, approx. weight 12.5cm. (2)

Provenance: A Private Collection.
The plate initialled ED was possibly made as part of a set for Alice Amherst's sister-in-law Elinor Denison.
A similar plate initialled S was sold in Bonhams Edinburgh, Dunrobin Attic sale, 20th April 2021, lot 182.