Earl of Egremont - A pair of George III sterling silver meat or poultry dishes, London 1772 by John Parker and Edward Wakelin (active 1759-1777)

Earl of Egremont - A pair of George III sterling silver meat or poultry dishes, London 1772 by John Parker and Edward Wakelin (active 1759-1777)

Of shaped oval form with gadrooned rims. Each engraved to the front with a crest of a lion's head erased within a fetterlock, below an Earl’s coronet. Both fully marked to the reverse. One engraved 29, the other 33, each with scratch weights 30=10. (2)

Length – 37.2 cm / 14.75 inches

Weight - 1842 grams / 59.22 ozt

The crest is for Wyndham

Likely for George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751 –1837)

Earl’s of Egremont, created in 1749 for Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset, 1st Earl of Egremont (1684-1750) thence to is nephew Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont (1710-1763) thence to his son George O'Brien Wyndham 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751 –1837) of Petworth House, Suussex (built 1688) and Ergremont House, London (built in 1756–1761). The third Earl is the likey owner of these dishes, rather than his nephew George Francis Wyndham, 4th and last Earl of Egremont (1786 –1845). A pair of sauce tureens is known marked for London 1774 by Parker and Wakelin, bearing the arms of Wyndham with an Earl's coronet. The third Earl was an important patron of the arts to artists such as Contstable, Flaxman and Turner, where the latter had a studio at Petworth.

Earl Egremont is recorded in the Wakelin ledgers: Schrager, L., The Royal and Aristocratic Patronage of Wakelin and Tayler, 1776-92, (2006) The journal of the silver society, no 21, p.95.