Collections & Fine Furniture - 16th April 2024
Lot 116
A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE II/III OCTAGONAL PEWTER PLATES
Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £1512
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Description
A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE II/III OCTAGONAL PEWTER PLATES
BY THOMAS CHAMBERLAIN, LONDON, C.1750-60
each with a central well inside a border with an engraved coat of arms, and a triple reeded border, the reverse with the touchmark for Thomas Chamberlain (fl.1732-1775) opposite the maker's rectangular mark (12)
23.2cm wide
Catalogue Note
A set of twelve identical plates are held in the Colonial Williamsburg Museum Collection, Virginia, USA. The arms show a fir tree crossed by a sword supporting a coronet on its tip to dexter and three bars to sinister. These may be the arms of GREG, GRIEG or GREGORY, and hence may have a Scottish origin, but they have not been conclusively identified.
For other plates from the same service that have sold at auction, see Bishop and Miller, 27th April 2023, The Chapman Pewter Collection, lot 2, and Bonhams, 19th April 2021, The John Douglas Collection of Base Metal, lot 132.