Treaders Collectables has dated this George III Silver Supper Dish to the 19th Century.
The circular dish with gadrooned border, the domed cover surmounted by an ornate cast foliate-scroll handle, raised on a conforming stand with twin loop handles and four acanthus-capped supports terminating in lion's paw feet, the cross-stretcher fitted with its detachable sterling silver spirit lamp — a component very often lost from surviving examples. The dish and stand fully hallmarked with maker's mark W·B, lion passant, leopard's head crowned, date letter c for 1818 and George III duty mark; the cover part-marked with lion passant and date letter, as customary for the period; the spirit burner separately hallmarked London 1819, maker's mark T.B.
A handsome and substantial example of high Regency dining silver, entirely typical of the grand sideboard service of an English country house breakfast — designed to keep devilled kidneys, kedgeree or bacon warm above the gentle flame of the spirit lamp.
Dimensions: Assembled Height: 25.4 cm; Diameter: 24.1 cm
Weight: 1,958g , 62.9 troy oz
Materials: Sterling silver -925, hallmarked
Period: George III / Regency, dated 1818 , the burner 1819
Place of origin: London, England
Treaders Collectables has dated this George III Silver Supper Dish to the 19th Century.
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George III Sterling Silver Supper Dish, Cover & Lampstand, London 1818
