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THE EGREMONT SERVICE A GEORGE III SILVER DINNER-SERVICE LONDON, 1806 & 1807, MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL STORR With gadrooned borders chased at intervals with shells and acanthus foliage, engraved either once, or twice, with an Earl's armorials and sometimes a separate crest, comprising: Forty-two shaped-circular dinner-plates -- 11 in. (27.6 cm.) diam. ; eight second-course dishes en suite -- 13 in. (33 cm.) diam; three others, larger -- 14 in. (35.9 cm.) diam. ; another, larger -- 16 in. (41 cm.) diam. ; a pair of shaped oval meat-dishes -- 13 in. (33.6 cm.) long ; four others, larger -- 15 in. (38.7 cm.) long ; two others, larger -- 17 in. (43.8 cm.) long ; three others, larger -- 19½ in. ((49.9 cm.) long ; four others, larger -- 20½ in. (52.7 cm.) long ; a pair of oval mazarines on pad feet, pierced with scroll work, trelliswork and mullets -- 14 in. (34.9 cm.) long ; another pair, larger -- 18 in. (46.3 cm.) long ; twelve sauce-tureens and covers, each circular on gadrooned spreading foot, the plain body applied beneath the lip with a band of vertical fluting, the border matching the dishes in the set. The reeded handles spring from applied lions' mask. The flat stepped gadrooned cover with detachable ring handle formed as a coiled snake above a calyx of leaves within a beaded frame -- 7¼ in. (19 cm.) long ; four circular vegetable-dishes and covers, the borders and covers en suite -- 10½ in. (27.3 cm.) diam. ; four circular vegetable-dishes (no covers) -- 10½ in. (27.3 cm.) ; four oblong entree-dishes and covers -- 13 in. (33 cm.) long ; two similar entree dishes and covers with slightly incurved sides -- 11 in. (28.5 cm.) long ; four similar entree-dishes adn covers with incurved corners -- 11 in. (28.2 cm.) long ; four oval entree-dishes en suite (no covers) -- 13½ in. (34.6 cm.) long