A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE II SILVER DINNER-PLATES, MARK OF DAVID WILLAUME, LONDON, 1732

A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE II SILVER DINNER-PLATES
MARK OF DAVID WILLAUME, LONDON, 1732
Gadrooned circular, engraved with husks and two cartouches, one with a coat-of-arms, the other with a crest, further later engraved with two crests, each marked underneath, further engraved with scratchweights '18-4'; '18-9'; '18-11'; '19-4'; '19-12'; two '19'13'; '20-0'; '20-4'; '20-7'; '21-6' and '21-13'
9 ¼ in. (23.6 cm.) diam.
223 oz. 4 dwt. (6,944 gr.)
The arms are those of Elwell/Elwill impaling Speke for Sir Edmund Elwell/Elwill, 3rd Bt. (d.1740) and his wife Anne (d.1742), daughter of William Speke of Beauchamp, co. Somerset. Sir Edmund succeeded his brother in 1727 and was sometime Comptroller of the Excise.

The later crests are those of Hervey and Bathurst presumably for Sir Felton Elwell Harvey Bathurst 1st Bt,.(1782-1819).

Provenance
Sir Edmund Elwell/Elwill, 3rd Bt. (d.1740) and his wife Anne (d. 1742), daughter of William Speke of Beauchamp, co. Somerset, by descent to their son
Sir John Elwell/Elwill 4th Bt. (d.1778), by descent to his daughter
Selena Mary (d.1841) wife of Felton Lionel Hervey (d.1785) whom she married in 1779 and by descent to their son
Sir Felton Elwell Harvey Bathurst 1st Bt. (1782-1819) and then by descent to
Sir Frederick Edward William Hervey-Bathurst, 5th Bt. (1870-1956).
Sir Frederick Hervey-Bathurst; Sotheby's, London, 9 October 1947.
S. Hardie, Esq., Sotheby's, London, 31 January 1963, lot 172 (£920 to Jessop).
John Kemeys-Tynte, 9th Baron Wharton (1908-1969).
The late the Right Honourable The Lord Wharton; Christie's, London, 18 March 1970, lot 126 (£2,500 to S. J. Phillips).