Ellis Finch
Head of Knightsbridge Silver Department
Lot 35
A pair of George III silver entrée dishes on Old Sheffield plate stands Philip Rundell, London 1819
27 November 2019, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£5,000 - £7,000
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Michael Moorcroft
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A pair of George III silver entrée dishes on Old Sheffield plate stands
Philip Rundell, London 1819
Oblong, the domed covers with fluted bands, surmounted with reeded leaf embellished lion-mask bracket handles with flowerhead calyces and gadrooned borders, with two sets of engraved armorial achievements, the bases with gadrooned rims with leaves and shells, with engraved crests, on Old Sheffield plate two-handled stands with liners, on leaf and anthemion paw feet, length over handles of stand 42cm, weight of silver 153oz.
Oblong, the domed covers with fluted bands, surmounted with reeded leaf embellished lion-mask bracket handles with flowerhead calyces and gadrooned borders, with two sets of engraved armorial achievements, the bases with gadrooned rims with leaves and shells, with engraved crests, on Old Sheffield plate two-handled stands with liners, on leaf and anthemion paw feet, length over handles of stand 42cm, weight of silver 153oz.
Footnotes
The second armorial achievement is that of the Smith family of Pickering, Upper Canada and later Preston, Northumberland England.
Sir David William Smith (1764-1837), 1st and only baronet.
Born 4th September 1764 he was the only child of Colonel John Smith and Anne Waylen. Born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, Smith was educated under military tutors and was first a military officer, joining his father's regiment, the 5th Regiment of Foot (later the Northumberland Regiment) as an ensign in 1779.
Married first Anne O'Reilly esq. of Ballykilchrist co. Longford in 1788 and after short leave he was posted to Detroit under his father's command in 1790. Smith became a captain in 1795, the same year his father died whilst in command of Fort Niagara, North America.
In 1792 Smith was made acting deputy surveyor general and appointed surveyor general of Upper Canada in 1798. Retiring from the army he remained in Canada settling into civil appointments. Smith was an influential and wealthy man, established politician and businessman. He owned 20,000 acres of land in Ontario, owning half of the original land that contained the original city of Toronto. For nearly all his time in Upper Canada Smith was also a member of the House of Assembly.
In July 1802 Smith left Canada and returned to England after recurrent bouts of fever. The following year he became Land Agent for the Duke of Northumberland who had been colonel of his Old Regiment. Smith was created Baronet of Preston in 1821 which became extinct in 1837 when he died near Alnwick, Northumberland.
By his first marriage he had surviving issue: Mary Elizabeth (born 1793), Sarah and Anne. He married a second time in 1803: Mary Tylee of Devizes by whom he had an only daughter: Hannah.
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