The Russell Service: A Set of Four George IV Silver Entree Dishes and Covers of Indian Interest, Philip Rundell, London, 1820

Sir Henry Russell, 2nd Baronet, and thence by descent.

Woolley & Wallis Salisbury, 28 April 2010, lot 1014

The inscription reads "Presented to Henry Russell Esq. late resident of the court of Hyderabad by the British officers serving with the Berar division of the Nizams army in token of respect, regard and esteem, 1821."

Sir Henry Russell, 2nd Baronet (1783-1852) was a British diplomat who first sailed with his father (see previous lot) to India in 1797, and ultimately became The British Resident at Hyderabad from 1810-20. In 1816 he married Marie Mottet de la Fontaine, daughter of the last French Governor of Pondicherry.