A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE II SILVER DINNER PLATES FROM...

Each shaped circular with gadrooned border, engraved with a coat-of-arms within the Order of the Thistle and drapery mantling, with earl's coronet above, marked underneath and further engraved with numbers and scratch weights: No 55 18:16 / No 56 19 / No 57 18:19 / No 58 18:19:1/2 / No 61 18:16:1/2 / No 62 18:5 / No 64 18:17 / No 65 18:11:1/2 / No 66 17:15 / No 67 17:18: 1/2 / No 71 18:2 / No 72 18:2:1/2 /
91⁄2 in. (24 cm.) diameter
213 oz. 16 dwt. (6,650 gr.)
The arms are those of Tollemache impaling Carteret for Sir Lionel Tollemache 5th Bt. and 4th Earl of Dysart, K.T. (1708-1770) and his wife Lady Grace Carteret, eldest daughter of 1st Earl of Granville, whom he married in 1729.

Provenance
Sir Lionel Tollemache 5th Bt. and 4th Earl of Dysart K.T. (1708-70), of Ham House, Richmond, by descent in the Tollemache family to,
Sir Lyonel Felix Carteret Eugene Tollemache, 4th Bt. (1854-1952), then to his son,
Sir Cecil Lyonel Newcomen Tollemache, 5th Bt. (1886-1969).
Important Silver, originally the property of the 4th Earl of Dysart, removed from Ham House prior to being taken over by the National Trust in 1947; J. Trevor & Sons, London, 12 May 1955, lot 66 or 67.