Details
Circular with gadrooned rims, the borders later engraved with crests and a coat-of-arms, marked on undersides and with engraved numbers and weights
10 in. (25.4 cm.) diameter
227 oz. 18 dwt. (7,088 gr.)
The arms are those of Wilson quartering Wright impaling Brudenell quartering Bruce, for Sir Henry Wright-Wilson Kt. (c.1760-1832) of Chelsea Park, Middlesex, Crofton Hall, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, and Drayton Lodge, Barton Stacey, Hampshire and his wife Lady Frances Elizabeth Wilson Brudenell-Bruce (1768-1836), daughter of Thomas Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury (1729-1814), whom he married as his second wife in 1799.
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 17 February 1960, lot 114 (as soup plates).
The Estate of Lynn Wolfson; Christie's, New York, 10 February 2016, lot 376.
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