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TWO ENGLISH PORCELAIN SHAPED-
SQUARE DISHES
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Each painted with figures in a rural landscape
within a wide border of gilt and pink flowers
8¬ in. (21.7 cm.) wide (2)
$600-800

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A GEORGE IV SILVER-GILT DESSERT FLATWARE SERVICE PROVENANCE:
MARK OF WILLIAM THEOBALDS, LONDON, 1829 Flora Mure-Campbell, 6th Countess of Loudoun, Marchioness of Hastings
(1780-1840).
Fiddle Thread pattern, the reverse of handle terminals engraved with three The Estate of J. A. Peter Strassburger; Christies, New York, April 14, 1994, lot
crests beneath a marchioness' coronet, comprising: 349.
Twenty-four dessert spoons
Twenty-four dessert forks
The crests are those of Hastings, Loudon and Rawdon, for Flora Campbell,
Twenty-four dessert knives
6th Countess of Loudoun, Marchioness of Hastings (1780-1840), widow of
Two two-piece carving sets
General Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings (1754-1826),
Six berry spoons
daughter of Major-General James Mure-Campbell, 5th Earl of Loudoun
A sauce ladle
Two ice cream servers (1726-1786).
A pair of grape shears
A sugar sifting spoon Flora Mure-Campbell, daughter of James, 5th Earl of Loudon, was born in
All in a fitted wooden chest with three removable trays, the hinged cover with a 1780, and in 1817, as suo jure Countess of Loudon, married Francis Rawdon-
brass plaque engraved 'Marchioness of Hastings, Countess of Loudoun' Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings. Lord Hastings, a decorated soldier, was
124 oz (3,856 gr.) weighable silver (87) appointed Governor of Malta in 1824, but then died on board H.M.S. Revenge
$4,000-6,000 off Naples aged 71 on November 26, 1826. Lady Hastings died in 1840 at
Kelburne Castle and was buried at Loudon. Her husband's right hand, which
at his request had been cut off on board the Revenge after his death and
preserved, was buried with her.

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