George II Sterling Silver Dinner Plates with Villiers Arms

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A George II set of twelve sterling silver circular dinner plates by George Wickes, London 1737, with gadrooned rims and engraved contemporary coat of arms and motto 'Fidel Coticula Crux' (The Cross is the Touchstone of Faith), the reverse with numbers and scratch weights 'No 11 20=13, No 12 20=9 1/2, No 13 20=2=1/2, No 14 20=7 1/2, No 18 20=6, No 19 20=7 1/2, No 20 20=4, No 23 19=8, No 24 20=3, No 26 20=11 1/2, No 34 20=10 1/2, No 36 20=9', 25 cm diameter, 6,960 grams, The arms are those of Villiers with a crescent for difference of a second son, for Thomas Villiers (1709-1786), second son of William Villiers, second Earl of Jersey. Thomas was educated at Eton and Queen's College, Cambridge. He became a diplomat and was envoy to Warsaw in 1737, presumably when the service was commissioned. He was Minister Plenipotentiary to Dresden 1740-47, to Vienna 1742-43, to Berlin 1746-48. Following his diplomatic service, Thomas Villiers was M.P. for Tamworth 1747-56. He was a Lord of the Admiralty 1748., In 1752, he married Charlotte, daughter of the Earl of Essex. He was created Baron Hyde in 1756. He was appointed a Privy Councillor in 1763 and was joint Postmaster General 1763-65. He was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1771-82 and again in 1783-86. He was created Earl of Clarendon in 1776. He died in 1786.

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Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.
Engraving - The method of decorating or creating inscriptions on silver and other metal objects by marking the surface with a sharp instrument such as a diamond point or rotating cutting wheel.
George Ii - George II (1683 - 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1727 until his death in 1760.
Gadrooning - A series of lobes usually as a border. In furniture gadrooning is found as carved decoration around the edges of table tops in the Chippendale and Jacobean style furniture. Gadrooning is also found as decoration on the rims of silver and ceramics.

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