Details
Rounded rectangular, the dishes with gadrooned rim and engraved with a crest on each side, the high domed covers with gadrooned border and engraved on one side with two coats-of-arms accolé beneath coronets, the top applied with a rosette with supporting an acanthus-capped reeded handle springing from lion heads, marked throughout and numbered
1212 in. (31.8 cm.) long
161 oz. 18 dwt. (5,035 gr.)
Provenance
Prince Henry Maurice of Battenberg, K.G. (1858-1896), and his wife, Princess Beatrice (1857-1944), fifth and youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, sold,
H.R.H. Princess Beatrice; Christie's, London, 4 May 1932, lot 119 (with stands).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 20 October 1998, lot 324 (with stands).
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The arms are those of Hess quartering Battenberg accolé with the Royal arms of Great Britain with Saxony in pretence, for Prince Henry Maurice of Battenberg, K.G. (1858-1896), and his wife, Princess Beatrice (1857-1944), fifth and youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, whom he married in 1885. These entrée dishes are part of an extensive dinner service by Paul Storr, weighing a total of 4,882 ounces, sold from Princess Beatrice's apartments at Kensington Palace at Christie's on May 4, 1932, for a total of £1,168 (the auction is described in Arthur Grimwade, Silver for Sale, London, 1994, pp. 17-19).
A pair of matching circular entrée dishes with their stands from the Battenberg Service were sold at Christie's, New York, 17 October 2002, lot 145. Further, a pair of wine coolers from the service were sold at Christie's, New York, 17 May 2011, lot 168. A pair of entrée dishes on stands of 1809 by Storr and Boulton, identical to the present lot but not from the Battenberg Service, sold at Christie's, London, 15 April 1997, lot 268.

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