Oblong, the dishes with gadrooned rim, the stands with reeded handles, supported on four alternating lion and unicorn feet, the finial modelled as the Royal crest, the covers engraved on one side with a cypher below a Royal coronet, the other side engraved with the Royal arms, the stands applied on each side with the Royal arms within a Garter motto, marked and numbered one through four on dishes, covers, liners, finials, and warming stands, two finials marked Matthew Bolton, Birmingham, 1801
Each 15³⁄₄ in. (40 cm.) long, over handles
657 oz. 6 dwt. (20,442 gr.) weighable silver

The entrée dishes supplied to Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), wife of King George III (1760-1820) and presumably then by descent to her seventh son Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (1774-1850) who commission the stands and finials and then by descent to his son,
Prince George, 2nd Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904),
H.R.H. Duke of Cambridge, KG, KT, KP; Christie's London, 6 June, 1904, lot 175, (£126 to Lyon).
Property of a Lady [S.J. Phillips]; Christie's London, 6 July, 1932, lot 94, (£187 to Marsh).
Property from the Estate of H.R.H. The Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, KG., KT., KP.; Christie's, London, 26 January, 2006, Lot 69.