A George IV silver-gilt sideboard dish, Philip Rundell for Rundell, Bridge & Rundell, London, 1820

circular, the central group of Victory on a matt ground, the cast border applied with grapevines and bacchanalian masks over trelliswork and a reeded rim, the cavetto applied with later armorials, the reverse stamped RUNDELL BRIDGE ET RUNDELL AURIFICES REGIS LONDINI

Rundell, Bridge & Co. sale, Christie's, London, 20 July 1842, lot 997e
Sir Isaac-Lyon Goldsmid, 1st Baronet (1778-1859)
Mrs Garside, Christie's, London, 31 January 1968, lot 53
Collection of C. Ruxton Love & Audrey B. Love, Christie's, New York, 19 October 2004, lot 218

Antiquity Revisited: English and French Silver-GIlt from the Collection of Audrey Love, Christies New York,  September, 1997, no. 10
San Marino, Huntington Art Gallery, November 1998 - January 1999
Royal Goldsmiths: The Art of Rundell & Bridge 1797-1843, Koopman Rare Art, London 14 June-1 July 2005,

Christie's, Review of the Year, 1967-1968, p.144/145

With four different original finishes which all survivie in good condition. Needs a professional, light cleaning.
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Athough the 1842 catalogue ascribes the design of this superb dish to William Hodges Bailey, it is now thought that Bailey was the modeller and Benedetto Pistrucci most probably the designer of the central section. (see: Exhibition catalogues Antiquity Revisited, 1997 p. 58 and Royal Goldsmiths, 2005, fig. 113). Pistrucci (1784-1855) who moved to London in 1815 from his native Italy is known as a leading medal engraver.He was employed at the Royal Mint and became Chief Medalist to the King. It is known that he designed a large medal of George IV for Rundells and his Great Waterloo Medal begun in 1816, to be struck in gold for the allied sovereigns has a central figure of Victory flanked by two horses in identical but reversed poses to those on this dish.

Pistrucci's most famous work is of St. George & the Dragon which has been used on British gold sovereigns and crowns from 1817. The central design of a silver-gilt sideboard dish depicting St. George and the Dragon by Philip Rundell, 1822 has been tentativley attributed to Pistrucci (see Charles Oman, English Silversmiths' Work, Civil and Domestic, London, 1965, fig.207).  The trellis  border on the present sideboard dish appears to be from the same mould used by Paul Storr in Rundell's Dean Street workshop to make the Bacchus and Ariadne dish (Antiquity Revisited p. 52). The Satyrs' heads relate to those on the antique Warwick vase which Rundell's were allowed to copy in 1813

The post July 1842 armorials are those of Goldsmid impailing Goldsmid for Sir Isaac-Lyon Goldsmid who married his cousin Isabel in 1804. Sir Isaac made a fortune in the bullion brokerage of  Mocatta and Goldsmid, founded in 1677 by Moses Mocatta. In 1841 Sir Isaac became the first professing Jew to receive an English hereditary title.  Intensely disliking the division of London Jews into distinct Ashkenazi (German and Yiddish speaking)  and Sephardi (Spanish and Portuguese) communities he was instrumental in founding a distinct "British synagogue" the West London Synagogue of British Jews  which opened in February 1842. To him is given much of the credit for the founding of University College London. He was also instrumental in securing the university's 8-acre site and instigator of the first professorship of Hebrew at the university in 1828; this came to be knows as the Goldsmid Chair.