### An Set of Five George III Silver Meat Dishes, William Burwash and Richard Sibley I, London, 1806/1815 with Mazarine.

This is a wonderful graduated suite of meat dishes in three graduated sizes. The largest meat dish comes with its original pierced mazarine.
One of the three smaller meat dishes is by William Burwash & Richard Sibley I, 1806, the others are by William Burwash, 1815

Lengths: 18 3/4, 21 1/4, and 23 in. (47.6, 54, and 58.5 cm)
Total Weight: 442 oz 10 dwt (13758.6 g)

Artist Biography:
No record of apprenticeship or freedom. Heal records William Burwash, watchcasemaker, at 45 Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell, from 1782-1804, for whom two incuse marks are entered in 1802 and 1803 at 3 Red Lion Street (Section V). It would seem very likely that he is the William Burwash of St.Stephen's, Wallbrook, married at that church, 7 November 1781, to Elizabeth Salt of St. John's, Clerkenwell, and that they may be the parents of William Burwash of this entry. First mark entered in partnership with Richard Sibley, 7 October 1705\\. Address: 14 Bartholomew Close. Second mark, alone, incuse, 6 July 1812\\. Third mark, (two sizes), 10 August 1812\\. Fourth mark, 23 April 1813, all at the same address. His son George apprenticed to Richard Sibley 1 January 1806, and another son William to William Chawner 6 November 1816, who had married Mary Burwashearlier that year.