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A LARGE VENISON DISH AND COVER 19TH CENTURY, the oval silver 'well and tree' meat dish, London 1810, with mark of William Bennett, having gadrooned rim and engraved with crest and motto ‘Auxillium ab alto’ (Aid from above), raised on four tapered supports; together with fitted silver plated warming dish having twin bone handles and raised on bone bun feet; and a silver plated domed cover, with naturalist cast loop handle, the plain body with corresponding crest and gadrooned rims. The silver dish: c.103 troy ozs, 56 x 41.5cm The plated warming dish: 61cm wide over handles, The Silver plate cover 34cm high, 51.5cm wide, 39cm deep The arms are those of Luke Dillon, 2nd Baron Clonbrock (1780-1820) impaled with those of his wife, a daughter of Baron Wallscourt of Ardfry. Provenance: Mr & Mrs Luke Dillon-Mahon, sale Christie's & Lisney and Sons, Clonbrock, 1 November 1976, lot 658
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