Earl of Hardwicke - A George III sterling silver meat dish, London 1767 by John Parker and Edward Wakelin

Of shaped oval form with a gadrooned rim. The edge later engraved with an impaled coat of arms between supporters and the motto below nec cupias, nec metuas, all surmounted by an Earl’s coronet. The reverse engraved No 11 and scratch weight 26:7. Fully marked to the reverse.

Length – 36.2 cm / 14.25 inches

Weight – 745 grams / 23.95 ozt

The arms are for Yorke impaling Lindsay

For Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke (1757-1834) who married on the 24^th July 1782 Lady Elizabeth Scot Lindsay (1763-1858). He the son of Hon. Charles Yorke (1722-1770) and Katharine Freeman (1736-1759). He inherited the earldom upon the death of his uncle Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke (1720-1790), he was known as Philip Yorke until 1790. She the daughter of James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres (1691-1768) and Anne Dalrymple (1727-1820), the daughter of Sir Robert Dalrymple (d.1734).

Hardwicke was Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire from 1780 to 1790, following the Whig traditions of his family, but after his succession to the earldom in 1790 he supported William Pitt The Younger, and took office in 1801 as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1801–1806), where he supported Catholic emancipation. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1801, created a Knight of the Garter in 1803, and was a fellow of the Royal Society. The family seat is Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire.

This dish presumably sold at the Wimpole Hall sale, Chrisitie's London, 4 April, 1895.

A set of four candlesticks, 1754 by Edward Wakelin engraved with the crest of York sold Bonham’s Los Angeles, 25 September 2013, lot 1074A ($8,125 incl. prem).