Lot 420
A pair of George III serving dishes
Auction: 8 February 2012 at 11:00 GMT
Description
William Stroud, London 1825, of shaped oval outline with gadrooned and acanthus detailed border, the border with engraved armorial
Dimensions
37cm wide, each 35oz
Footnote
John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (16 October 1756 - 3 April 1842) was a British peer who had served as a Member of Parliament (MP) in general support of William Pitt the Younger and was later an active member of the House of Lords. His violent attacks on Edmund Burke and Charles James Fox in the early 1780s led to his being the target for satirical attack in the Rolliad.
Physically he was a large man, and made no pretension to an intellectual approach. Nathaniel William Wraxall wrote of him "Nature had denied him all pretension to grace or elegance. Neither was his understanding apparently more cultivated than his manners were refined. He reminded me always of a Devonshire rustic, but he possessed plain common sense, a manly mind, and the faculty of stating his ideas in a few strong words." In later life he caused a disturbance at the coronation of Queen Victoria when he fell down the stairs.