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It is  from a set ordered by THomas Lumley Saunderson, 3rd Earl of Scarborough, treasurer to the Prince, who wanted to commemorate this relationship.\r\n\r\nWhen Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685, Huguenots (French Protestants) were forced to leave the country. Many were craftsmen who settled in London.  Their technical skills and fashionable French style ensured the luxury silver, furniture, watches and jewellery they made were highly sought after.  Huguenot specialists transformed English silver by introducing higher standards of craftsmanship. George Wickes produced silver of a comparable quality and may have collaborated with second generation Huguenot goldsmiths in the production of newly introduced forms, such as the soup tureen and sauceboat, and a new repertoire of ornament, with cast sculptural details and exquisite engraving.\r\n\r\n\r\nSir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes.  Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996.","physicalDescription":"Circular, silver-gilt dish with gadrooned border chased at intervals with leaves within an applied band of scrolling strapwork and foliage on punched ground, the centre engraved with the Royal coat of arms and Garter motto.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Wickes, George","id":"A8985"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"AAT251917"},"note":"George Wickes was a contemporary of Paul de Lamerie and apprenticed in 1712 to Samuel Wastell. He entered his first mark at Goldsmiths' Hall in 1722 and registered an address in Threadneedle Street. By 1735, when he registered his third mark, he had moved to Panton Street and by 1739, the year in which these dishes were marked, his trade card advertised his royal appointment to the Prince of Wales in English and French. \nThe ledgers of George Wickes's business dating from 1735 form part of the Garrard Ledgers in the V&amp;A's Archive of Art and Design.\n\nWickes made silver to the designs of the architect William Kent for his royal patron and his entourage. The 1736 Pelham gold cup, which celebrates Colonel Pelham's appointment as Private Secretary to the Prince, is displayed in the V&amp;A's British Galleries; the design for this cup by Kent's associate John Vardy is also in the V&amp;A (Museum number 9304:2). Thomas Lumley-Saunderson, 3rd Earl of Scarborough, who paid for these dishes, was appointed Treasurer and Receiver General to the Prince in 1738. These dishes thus celebrate another royal appointment.\n\nWickes's largest single commission was a dinner service made for James Fitzgerald, Viscount (later Duke of) Leinster and his wife, Emilia, in 1747-8. The Christening 'cup and cover' marked by Edward Feline, circa 1731, recently acquired by the Gilbert Collection, was given to Emilia by her godfather George II, father of Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales.\n\n"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"silver-gilt","id":"x37998"}],"techniques":[{"text":"raising","id":"AAT237068"},{"text":"casting","id":"AAT53104"},{"text":"chasing","id":"AAT54016"},{"text":"punching","id":"AAT235631"},{"text":"engraving (incising)","id":"AAT53829"},{"text":"gilding","id":"AAT53789"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Raised, cast, chased, punched and engraved silver-gilt.","categories":[{"text":"Metalwork","id":"THES48920"}],"styles":[{"text":"Queen Anne","id":"AAT21047"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"MET","id":"THES48599"},"images":["2009CC8131","2009CC6355","2009CR4158","2009CR4157","2009CC8129"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"011","id":"THES409929"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"dish","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"assayed","id":"x42656"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1739-1740","earliest":"1739-05-29","latest":"1740-05-28"},"association":{"text":"hallmarked","id":"x32454"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"LOAN:GILBERT.719-2008","id":"O156718"},"association":""}],"creditLine":"The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"31","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"2.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Weight","value":"1120","unit":"g","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Scratch weight: 35 7","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Engraved with the coat of arms of Frederick, Prince of Wales the Royal Motto ICH DIEN and the Garter motto HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"'I serve' and 'shame on him who thinks evil of it' ","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""},{"content":"London hallmarks for 1739-40","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""},{"content":"sponsor's mark of George Wickes","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"Provenance: Thomas Lumley-Saunderson, third earl of Scarbrough.  Sir Philip Sassoon, Bart.  The Trustees of the Cholmondeley Settlement, Houghton Hall, Norfolk; sale, Christie's, London, 11  July 1984, lot 355. Acquired by Arthur Gilbert from S.J. Phillips Ltd, London, 1984.","historicalContext":"These dishes celebrated Thomas Lumley-Sanderson's appointments to Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales.  He served the Prince as Equerry from 1726-7 and as Treasurer and Comptroller of the Household from May 1738. He took his seat as 3rd Earl of Scarbrough in the House of Lords on 14 February 1739/40. They are from a group of eleven dishes and eighteen plates referred to in WIckes's ledgers under the account of Lord Scarbrough. The eleven dishes weighed 470 ounces and 15 pennyweights, priced at 7 shillings 6 pence per ounce with a total cost of £176 10 shillings and 6 pence; the engraving of the heraldry cost £1 for eight of the dishes and £1 10 shillings for the three larger dishes and the associated plates in the set.  The cost of gilding the dishes was 2 shillings per ounce and came to a total of £87 1 shilling. Gilded silver dishes were often used in serving dessert.","briefDescription":"Silver-gilt dish, London hallmarks for 1739-40, mark of George Wickes","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Barr, Elaine. <u>George Wickes. 1698-1761: Royal Goldsmith</u>. New York: Rizzoli International Publications 1980, pp. 149-150, fig. 95. London: Studio Vista/Christie's; Schroder, Timothy. <u>The Gilbert collection of gold and silver</u>, Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 1988, cat. no. 61, pp. 239-241.  ISBN.0875871445 "},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Clayton, Michael. <u>Christie's pictorial history of English and American silver</u>. Oxford: Phaidon/Christie's, 1985, p. 146, no. 2.  ISBN.0714880183"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Brett, Vanessa. <u>The Sotheby's Directory of Silver, 1600-1940</u>.  London: Sotheby Publications, 1986, pl. 848 (another from the set)."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Schroder, Timothy. <u>The Gilbert collection of gold and silver</u>. Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 1988, cat. no.61, pp. 239-41.  ISBN.0875871445"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[{"text":"Lumley-Saunderson, Thomas (Earl of Scarbrough)","id":"AUTH340666"}],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"coats of arms","id":"AAT126352"},{"text":"foliage","id":"x42645"},{"text":"scrolling foliage","id":"AAT165387"},{"text":"gadrooning","id":"AAT10175"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"(Gallery 71, case 4)\r\n1, 5. 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