A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT SIDEBOARD DISH MARK OF WILLIAM PITTS LONDON, 1810 Circular, the centre chased with the Feast of the Gods and applied with ribbon-tied fishes, the wide border chased with river gods and satyr masks, with egg and dentil border, later engraved on reverse 'E.R.Mc.C. March 1911', marked underneath 24 ¾ in. (63 cm.) diam. gross weight 226 oz. (7,030 gr.) Provenance Possibly The Rt. Hon. W. W. Pole, Wanstead House, Essex; his sale, Rogers, on the premises, 18 June 1822, either lot 342 or 343, (a matching dish of the same date, possibly the pair to the present lot, was sold from the Wernher Collection; Christie's London, 5 July 200, lot 1), the 1822 catalogue description reads 'A GRAND MATCHLESS DEEP CIRCULAR SIDEBOARD DISH, the Center most elaborately chased with The Feast of the Gods, Dolphin Ornaments round a superb Allegorical border, with beautifully moulded Edge in Burnish and Matted Gold, 25 inches' Possibly Anonymous sale [H. Staples, J. Cox],' Christie's, London, 5 July 1906, lot 122 (£98 to Lyon). With Howard and Co., New York prior to 1911. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, Villa Turicum, Lake Forest, Illinois, by 1911, The Collection of the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick; American Art Associates Anderson Galleries Inc, 2-6 January 1934, lot 811.
A GEORGE III SILVER-GILT SIDEBOARD DISH MARK OF WILLIAM PITTS LONDON, 1810 Circular, the centre chased with the Feast of the Gods and applied with ribbon-tied fishes, the wide border chased with river gods and satyr masks, with egg and dentil border, later engraved on reverse 'E.R.Mc.C. March 1911', marked underneath 24 ¾ in. (63 cm.) diam. gross weight 226 oz. (7,030 gr.) Provenance Possibly The Rt. Hon. W. W. Pole, Wanstead House, Essex; his sale, Rogers, on the premises, 18 June 1822, either lot 342 or 343, (a matching dish of the same date, possibly the pair to the present lot, was sold from the Wernher Collection; Christie's London, 5 July 200, lot 1), the 1822 catalogue description reads 'A GRAND MATCHLESS DEEP CIRCULAR SIDEBOARD DISH, the Center most elaborately chased with The Feast of the Gods, Dolphin Ornaments round a superb Allegorical border, with beautifully moulded Edge in Burnish and Matted Gold, 25 inches' Possibly Anonymous sale [H. Staples, J. Cox],' Christie's, London, 5 July 1906, lot 122 (£98 to Lyon). With Howard and Co., New York prior to 1911. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, Villa Turicum, Lake Forest, Illinois, by 1911, The Collection of the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick; American Art Associates Anderson Galleries Inc, 2-6 January 1934, lot 811.
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