Plate
Francis Butty and Louis Herne
Category
Silver
Date
1762
Materials
silver
Measurements
17 mm (Height); 246 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Uppark House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 137860.9
Summary
One of a set of twelve early George III dinner plates; Herne and Butty London 1762. The shaped circular plates armorial engraved within drapery cartouches on the raised rims, applied with leaf punctuated gadroon borders, the undersides incised with contemporary scratch weights. 218 oz. 10 dwt. (Sotheby's catalogue). Purchased 16.10.1985 for £5,186, including £586 various charges. Sold by family. Fetherstonhaugh arms engraved. (NT/UPP/M/58a - l).
Provenance
Purchased by Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh in 1778 (from Guide Book).
Marks and inscriptions
19 14 1/2 (scratched on base)
Makers and roles
Francis Butty and Louis Herne, maker