A SET OF FOUR GEORGE IV SILVER ENTRÉE DISHES & COVERS, the design attributed to Edward Hodges Baily, Philip Rundell for Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, London, 1821

the rectangular dishes with dense shell and foliate borders, the fluted covers with rosette band, foliate handles rising from applied foliage within a ring matching the dishes border, each dish and cover engraved on one side with a monogram SHW and on the other with a collared hound passant crest with a (later?) Viscount's coronet on the rim underneath and on base of dishes.

Christie's New York, April 14, 1994, lot 340

slight wear to high spots and some scartches from use inside dishes, otherwise good, nice weight
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The design of these dishes was used extensively by Rundell's from about 1816 to the early 1820s, most famously for the service owned by Harriet, Duchess of St. Albans. 

The Rundell's album in the Victoria and Albert Museum has a design for a sauce tureen which shows the characteristics of this group: a fluted body, the same handle as on these dishes, and ruffled shell feet, sometimes spreading to oak sprays.[1]  Charles Oman attributes this drawing to Edward Hodges Baily (1788-1867).  Born in Bristol, he moved to London in 1807 and became a pupil of John Flaxman, with whom he worked for over seven years, winning awards at the Royal Academy School.  Flaxman had been providing designs for Rundell's since before 1809, and Baily joined the firm in 1815, serving under the sculptor William Theed, head of the design department.  Theed died in 1817, but Baily was not officially named chief modeler until after Flaxman's death in 1826.

One of the earliest examples of this pattern is a pair of wine coolers of 1816, with fluted bodies and oak spray handles.[2]  From 1817 to about 1821 it was used for the considerable service later engraved with the monogram of Harriet, Duchess of St. Albans.  The actress Harriet Mellon retired in 1815 and married banker Thomas Coutts the same year; on his death in 1822 he left her among other riches "the service of plate... said to be the most valuable in any of the country,"[3] suggesting the service had been ordered by the new Mrs. Coutts and was re-engraved on her second marriage.  The service included at least eight entrée dishes of 1817 in this pattern.[4]

In 1821 the design was also used for a dinner service, including four entrée dishes and covers of this model, presented to Henry Russell by British Officers serving in India.[5]

[1] Illustrated Charles Oman, "A Problem of Artistic Responsibility: The Firm of Rundell, Bridge and Rundell," Apollo 83 (March 1966), fig. 14, p. 182
[2] Christie's New York, October 19, 2004, lot 1005
[3] The Morning Post, 1822
[4] Four sold with warming stands, Christie's New York, April 15, 1997, lot 280, and four more without warming stands, Sotheby's New York, October 18, 2001, lot 252
[5] Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury, April 28, 2010, lot 1014