Each shell-form with fluted sides, the inner rim engraved with with strapwork panels and latticework, engraved to the centers with a coat-of-arms beneath an earl's coronet, marked on undersides
9¹⁄₈ in. (23.2 cm.) wide
73 oz. 10 dwt. (2,286 gr.)
The arms are those of Edgecumbe with Hobart in pretence for Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount-Edgecumbe (1764-1839), Lord Lieutenant and Vice-Admiral of Cornwall.

Richard Edgecumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount-Edgecumbe (1764-1839).
Presumably Philip Hill (d.1944), financier and collector of Windlesham Moor, Surrey, then to his widow,
Phyllis Lytton Hill (1898-1984), who married Alfred Warwick Bryant (d.1971) in 1947, sold,
Mrs. Warwick Bryant; Christie's, London, 12 October 1955, lot 135.
Antenor Patiño (1896-1982), Bolivian tin magnate and collector, sold,
The Patiño Collection: Important English and Continental Silver and Silver-Gilt; Christie's, New York, 28 October 1986, lot 23.
Acquired from James Robinson Inc., New York, 7 November 1986.

John Wakelin and Robert Garrard’s Gentleman’s Ledger (VAM, 21A, p. 1 of 13), folio 11, entry for 8 February 1800.
F. Davis, ‘Gaity and Good Manners’, Country Life, 27 November 1986, pp. 1686-1687, fig. 2.

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Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount-Edgecumbe (1764-1839), Lord Lieutenant and Vice-Admiral of Cornwall was born in 1764, he was MP for Lostwithiel 1790-1791, for Fowey 1791-1795 and Sewer at the Coronation of George IV in 1821. He married in 1789 Sophia, 3rd daughter and co-heir of John, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire.

Madame d'Arblay said of the Earl in 1789, 'He is a most neat little beau and his face has the roses and lilies as finely blended as that of his pretty young wife.'

These dishes, which follow the form of porcelain examples of the period, were evidently made to match four earlier dishes by Paul Crespin, 1730, and are listed in the Wakelin and Garrard Gentleman's Ledger in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

John Wakelin and Robert Garrard’s Gentleman’s Ledger, entry for 8 February 1800.

'Earl of Mount Edgecumbe

1800 Feb^y8 - To 2 Escallop dishes with rich chased borders......42- [oz.]... [£]28...14[s]...- [d]
To 4 Shell shaped do. [ditto].....................................................73.7 [oz.]...[£]47...13[s]...6[d]
To engraving 6 coats, Suppr. & Corts............................................................[£]2.......2[s]...0[d]
To smoothing & polishing four old dishes.................................................................10[s]...0[d]

To gilding the new dishes in the best manner in two colours,.......................[£]28....15[s]
do. [ditto] the old...........................................................................................[£]14.......[s] -[d]'