Shaped circular with gadrooned rims, the borders engraved with a coat-of-arms within drapery mantling and surmounted by an earl's coronet, marked on undersides and engraved N 25 31:14 and N 26 31:4
13 in. (33 cm.) diameter
61 oz. 14 dwt. (1,919 gr.)
The arms are those of Hill impaling Fitzgerald for Wills Hill, 2nd Viscount Hillsborough and 1st Earl of Hillsborough, later 1st Marquess of Downshire (1718-1793) and his first wife Lady Margaretta Fitzgerald (d.1766), daughter of Robert Fitzgerald, 19th Earl of Kildare (1675- 1743), whom he married in 1747.

Wills Hill, 2nd Viscount Hillsborough and 1st Earl of Hillsborough, later 1st Marquess of Downshire (1718-1793).
Acquired from S.J. Shrubsole, New York, 1 August 1983.

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A set of twelve dinner plates from the same service was sold Sotheby’s New York, 11 April 2000, Lot 169. The majority of the service was first sold by the Marquess of Downshire in the sale of the Downshire Heirlooms at Christie’s London on 14 March 1945.