A GEORGE III SILVER MEAT DISH

MARK OF ANDREW FOGELBERG, LONDON, 1775

Details

Shaped oval with gadrooned border, engraved with a coat-of-arms with viscount's coronet above and a slightly later coat-of-arms within plume mantling, marked underneath
19 3/4 in. (50 cm.) wide
71 oz. 13 dwt. (2,230 gr.)
The arms are those of Bulkeley, for Thomas James Bulkeley, 7th and last Viscount Bulkeley of Cashel and Baron Bulkeley of Beaumaris (1752-1822), of Baron Hill, Beaumaris, who married Elizabeth Harriet, daughter of Sir George Warren of Poynton K.B. on 26 April, 1777.
The slightly later arms are those of Bulkeley quartering Williams for Richard Bulkeley Williams-Bulkeley (1801-1875), later 10th Bt of Penryhn, the son of Lord Bulkeley's half brother Sir Robert Williams 9th Bt. of Penrhyn.
Provenance

Thomas James, 7th Viscount Bulkeley of Cashel and 1st Baron Bulkeley of Beaumaris (1752-1822), of Baron Hill, Beaumaris, then by descent to his half brother's son,
Richard Bulkeley Williams-Bulkeley (1801-1875), later 10th Bt of Penryhn, then by descent to,
Sir Richard Williams Bulkeley 12th Bt. of Penrhyn K.C.B. (1862-1942), of Baron Hill and Pen-y-Parc, Beaumaris,
Sir Richard Williams Bulkeley Bt.; Sotheby's, London, 25 July 1935, lot 101 (part).
Lot Essay

Thomas James, 7th Viscount Bulkeley and 1st Baron Bulkeley of Beaumaris (1752-1822), was the last in the direct line of a family that had held estates on Anglesey since the fifteenth century. Bulkeley made the Grand Tour in 1773-4, reaching Rome by 19 January 1774. He commissioned a portrait whilst in the city. The picture, traditionally attributed to George Romney, was exhibited at Christie's, London, The Treasures of the North, 2000, cat. no. 6. It shows him in the Roman Campagna, with the Temple of Minerva Medica beyond. On his death he left his North Welsh estates to his half brother's son Richard Bulkeley Williams, who assume name and arms of Bulkeley by Royal Licence in 1827.