A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER MEAT-DISH COVERS, MARK OF GEORGE HEMING AND WILLIAM CHAWNER, LONDON, 1778

A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER MEAT-DISH COVERS
MARK OF GEORGE HEMING AND WILLIAM CHAWNER, LONDON, 1778
Shaped oval, with beaded borders, partly fluted and with laurel foliate and bud finial, engraved with two coats-of-arms accolé below viscount’s coronet, marked on border
11½ in. (29 cm.) wide

52 oz. 2 dwt. (1,622 gr.)
The arms are those of Murray quartering Barclay of Balvaird, within the motto of the Order of the Thistle accolé with Cathcart quartering Wallace of Sundrum, for David, 7th Viscount Stormont K.T. (1727-1796), and his second wife, Louisa (b.c.1758-1843), daughter of Charles, 9th Lord Cathcart (1721-1776), whom he married in 1776.