231165: The Rutland Marine Service Start Price GBP 60,000.00 Current Price GBP 88,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 6 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, November 23, 2008 End Time Sunday, November 23, 2008 Location London, England, United Kingdom See more about '231165: The Rutland Marine Service' Description Current Lot The Rutland Marine Service A set of four magnificent George III silver entrée dishes, covers and liners Benjamin Smith II, London 1807 each rectangular, the body with a band of peacocks alternating with anthemion and wheat ears, with bead and dentil borders, the domed fluted cover with a cast band of palmettes and flowers on a matted ground, the finial formed as four modelled dolphins above a cast band of grapevine and bacchanalian masks, the liner with everted beaded rim, the body and liner engraved on each side with a crest within a Garter motto beneath a Duke's coronet, the cover engraved on each side with a Duke's armorials, numbered 1-4 (4) 31.8cm long, 523oz/rHeraldry: The arms are of John Henry Manners, KG., 5th Duke of Rutland impaling the arms of Howard for the Duchess (marriage 1799) nee Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of the Earl of Carlisle. Provenance: Christie's New York, 20th October 1999, lot 178, The Alan and Simone Hartman Collection, Christie's, London, 26th January 1944, lot 43 John Henry, 5th Duke of Rutland (1778-1857), then by descent to Charles John Robert, 10th Duke of Rutland Exhibited: English Regency Silver from the collection of Simone and Alan Hartman, February - June 1995, Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences Place a Bid!