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Lot Essay
This meat-dish forms part of an extensive service supplied by Rundell's to the Royal family, circa 1835. A large portion of the service, weighing 10,000 ounces in all, was sold at Christie's by William, 1st Earl of Londesborough in 1898. The service, consisting of 168 dinner plates, 30 soup plates, a circular bread basket, four wine coolers, two pairs of soup tureens, six sauce tureens, and various meat and serving dishes, was variously engraved with both cyphers of William IV and the Queen, and just the Queen's cypher.
Pieces from the service have reappeared at auction including a set of four cushion-shaped entree dishes, (Christie's, New York, May 25, 1977, lot 191; a pair of circular sauce tureens (Christie's, London, January 29, 1947, lot 143); a pair of cushion shaped entree dishes and cover (Christie's, New York, 20 April 2001, lot 250 and most recently a soup-tureen, cover and stand which had entered the collection of H.R.H The Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (Christie's, London, 26 January 2006, lot 65).
Pieces from the service have reappeared at auction including a set of four cushion-shaped entree dishes, (Christie's, New York, May 25, 1977, lot 191; a pair of circular sauce tureens (Christie's, London, January 29, 1947, lot 143); a pair of cushion shaped entree dishes and cover (Christie's, New York, 20 April 2001, lot 250 and most recently a soup-tureen, cover and stand which had entered the collection of H.R.H The Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (Christie's, London, 26 January 2006, lot 65).