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THE LEINSTER SERVICE A GEORGE II SILVER DINNER-SERVICE
MARK OF GEORGE WICKES LONDON, 1745-1756
THE LEINSTER SERVICE A GEORGE II SILVER DINNER-SERVICE MARK OF GEORGE WICKES LONDON, 1745-1756 Comprising the following as detailed fully on the following pages: A pair of Soup-Tureens, Covers, Liners, Stands and Ladles An Epergne and Plateau Seventy Dinner-Plates A set of Eighteen Soup-Plates A set of Twenty-Nine Dishes, Twenty-Two Covers and Two Mazarines A set of Eleven Salvers and Waiters A set of Four Candlesticks A set of Eight Sauceboats and Four Sauce-Ladles A pair of Cruet-Stands A pair of Boxes and Covers A set of Four Condiment-Vases Total gross weight 5,295 oz. 9 dwt. (164,705 gr.) (184) The arms are those of FitzGerald impaling the Royal arms of Charles II for James FitzGerald 20th Earl of Kildare, later 1st Duke of Leinster (1722-1773), and his wife Lady Emily (1731-1814), daughter of Charles Lennox 2nd Duke of Richmond, whom he married on 7 February 1747. a.) A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER SOUP-TUREENS, COVERS, LINERS, STANDS AND LADLES THE LINERS, STANDS AND LADLES EACH WITH THE MARK OF GEORGE WICKES LONDON, 1746, THE TUREENS AND COVERS APPARENTLY UNMARKED, CIRCA 1746 Each shaped oval on four openwork leaf-capped scroll feet, chased and pierced with stylized shells and scrolls and with reeded handles, the domed covers similarly chased and with reeded handles, each with plain liner, the stands with shell handles and reeded and shell borders, each with soup-ladle with fluted shell bowl, the stands each engraved with a coat-of-arms below an earl's coronet, the liners and ladles each engraved with a crest below an earl's coronet, marked under the liners, stands and on ladles, the liners each numbered and engraved with a scratchweight 'N o 1 19?=5' and 'N o 2 191=12', the stands engraved 'N o 1 88=12' and 'N o 2 89=5', the ladles engraved 'N o 1 11=12' and 'N o 2 11=?' The stands 21 in. (53.5 cm.) long 570 oz. 8 dwt. (17,742 gr.) (6) The R t . Hon b l e . The Earl of Kildare, Debtor 17 February 1746 'To 2 Turreens [sic] 2 Dishes and 2 Ladles 592 oz. 14 dwt 6/1 £180 5s 6d' 'To Making at 7/6 £222 5s 3 d' 'To Graving Arms and Mantling on these 4 crests & Cor t s £8 12s' b.) A GEORGE II SILVER EPERGNE AND PLATEAU THE PLATEAU WITH MARK OF GEORGE WICKES LONDON, 1746, THE EPERGNE APPARENTLY UNMARKED, CIRCA 1746 The epergne on six shell and leaf-capped scroll feet and with pierced canopy, cast and chased with trailing vines and a finial cast as a basket of flowers, the plateau on four leaf-capped scroll feet and with shell, scroll and foliage border, the sides applied with foliage scrolls and cast with cornucopia, engraved with a coat-of-arms below an earl's coronet within trailing foliage issuing from vases, with mahogany base set with four part-ivory castors, the plateau fully marked underneath and with maker's mark only on border the plateau 26¾ in. (68 cm.) long gross weight 395 oz. 14 dwt. (12,307 gr.) (2) The R t . Hon b l e . The Earl of Kildare, Debtor 19 August 1746 'To a Fine Epargne [sic] and Basket & Table 427 oz. 16 dwt. 16/- £342 5s' 'To Graving the Border and Arms on the Table and Arm on Baskets £16 16s' 'To a Mahogany Board & brass Casters Silver'd for the Table £1 10s' c.) SEVENTY SILVER DINNER-PLATES SIXTY-NINE WITH MARK OF GEORGE WICKES LONDON, THIRTY-SEVEN 1745, TWENTY 1746, TWELVE 1756, ONE MODERN Each shaped circular and with reeded and shell borders, each engraved with a crest below an earl's coronet, each marked underneath, further engraved with a number and scratchweight 'N o 3 19=5'; 'N o 4 20=0'; 'N o 5 20=2'; 'N o 7 19=19' 'N o 10 19=10';'N o 11 19=17'; 'N o 12 19=8'; 'N o 13 19=13'; 'N o 14 19=8'; 'N o 15 19=18'; 'N o 17 19=17'; 'N o 19 19=12'; 'N o 21 19=16'; 'N o 22 19=8'; 'N o 24 19=14'; 'N o 26 19=17'; 'N o 27 19=18'; 'N o 28 20=0'; 'N o 29 20=4'; 'N o 30 19=19'; 'N o 31 20=3'; 'N o 32 19=10'; 'N o 33 19=19'; 'N o 34 20=1'; 'N o 35 19=8'; 'N o 36 19=12'; 'N o 37 19=18'; 'N o 38 19=18'; 'N o 39 19=18'; 'N o 40 19=15'; 'N o 41 19=11'; 'N o 43 19=11'; 'N o 44 19=10'; 'N o 45 19=10