A George III silver two-handled soup tureen, cover, stand and liner, Philip Rundell for Rundell, Bridge & Rundell, London, 1819

shaped oval, the two-handled stand on four shell and grape pattern panel supports, the tureen on four massive scroll and foliate feet with issuing oak and acorn sprays, applied gadroon, shell and foliate borders, engraved on either side with a coat-of-arms, motto, crest, supporters and a baron's coronet, the underside of the stand scratched with the number 5619; the detachable cover with detachable cast oak pattern handle, maker's mark of John Bridge for Rundell, Bridge & Rundell, circa 1827

Charles, 1st Baron Feversham (1764-1841), thence by descent The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Feversham, removed from Duncombe Park, Yorkshire, Christie's, London, 25 May 1937, lot 24 (£644), including a matching soup tureen, cover, stand and liner, John Bridge for Rundell, Bridge & Rundell, London, 1827
Ross S. Sterling (1875-1949)

marks and condition good
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The arms are those of Duncombe impaling Legge for Charles Duncombe (1764-1841), first son and heir of Charles Slingsby Duncombe (d. 1803), who on 14 July 1826 was created Baron Feversham of Duncombe Park, Yorkshire. He was married on 24 September 1795 to Charlotte (1774-1848), daughter of William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth. High Sheriff for Yorkshire in 1790, he was MP for Shaftesbury from 1790 to 1796, for Aldborough from 1796 to 1806, for Heytesbury from 1812 to 1818 and for Newport, Isle of Wight from 1818 to 1826.

The design of this tureen relates to a pen and wash drawing in an album of such designs executed during the early years of the 19^th Century for the royal goldsmiths, Rundell, Bridge & Rundell.  Charles Oman, in his article, ‘A Problem of Artistic Responsibility’, suggested that at least some of the drawings, including that of the tureen, were the work of Edward Hodges Baily (1788-1867), the artist sculptor who in 1807 became a pupil of John Flaxman. He supplied designs to Rundell, Bridge & Rundell between 1815 and 1833, when he moved to Storr & Mortimer, later Hunt & Roskell. See Apollo, London, March 1966, p. 182, fig. 14. 

Much of Lord Feversham's Rundell, Bridge & Rundell silver dinner service, which dated chiefly from 1827, was sold at Christie's, London, on 25 May 1937 and 17 May 1967. See lot 154 for a set of four silver wine coasters, John Bridge, 1827, from the same service.