Details
Painted with supporters below crests and between a motto, the coat-of-arms for George Stevens Byng, 2nd Earl of Stafford and his first wife Lady Agnes Paget, comprising:
Six breakfast-cups and five saucers
Five coffee-cups and four saucers
One two-handled sugar-bowl and cover
One waste-bowl
One milk-jug
Five plates
The plates: 958 in. (24.3 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Supplied to George Byng, later 2nd Earl of Strafford, circa 1830, and by descent to the 6th Earl of Strafford.
Special notice
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The arms on this service are those of Byng impaling Paget for, George Stevens Byng, later 2nd Earl of Strafford (1806-1886), styled Viscount Enfield between 1847 and 1860, of Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire and his first wife Lady Agnes Paget (d.1845), daughter of Field Marshal Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, whom he married in 1829.

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