Circular with gadrooned rim, the high domed cover with gadrooned border and topped by a rosette with a fluted acanthus capped handle springing from lion's heads, the dish engraved to two sides with two crests, the cover engraved to one side with two crests and to the other with a coat-of-arms under a foliate mantle, the silver-plated double warming dish with lobed outer body and supported by a four-legged stand with gadrooned rim and in-curved scroll handles all raised on paw feet, marked on side of dish and underside of cover, the silver-plated warming dish with sunburst mark possibly for Matthew Boulton, Birmingham, circa 1812
14¹⁄₈ in. (36 cm.) long, over handles
60 oz. 2 dwt. (1,869 gr.) weighable silver

Anonymous sale [H. Sinclair]; Christie’s, London, 28 June 1927, lot 37.
The Strassburger family, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1993-2021 (179-1993-105a).

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Th arms are those of Molyneaux quartering Howard, quartering Brotherton, Warren and Fitzalan, impaling Long, for Lord Henry Thomas Howard-Molyneux-Howard 1766–1824) and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Long of Hurts Hall, Suffolk, Chief Judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court, Jamaica, whom he married in 1801. Howard was the younger brother of Bernard Edward Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk. A meat dish also engraved with the arms of Lord Henry Howard-Molyneaux-Howard, by Paul Storr, 1812 was sold at Sotheby’s, New York, 6 October 2006, lot 171.