The soup tureen, vegetable dishes, and meat dishes all with shaped ribbon-tied reeded rims with leaf tips at angles, all covers with gilt finials modeled as sprays of various vegetables, warming stands all on four scroll feet and applied with shells, all engraved with script monogram JRA, comprising:

A large two-handled oval soup tureen, cover, and removable liner, mark of Odiot, and with French export marks

Two large meat dishes, mark of Odiot, and with French export marks

Two medium meat dishes, mark of Odiot, and with French export marks

Two small meat dishes, mark of Odiot, and with French export marks

Four two-handled circular vegetable dishes, covers, and removable liners, mark of Odiot, and with French export marks

Four silver-plated circular warming stands for vegetable dishes, with removable warming plates and burners, mark of Christofle

One silver-plated domed cover fitting medium meat dishes, mark of Christofle

Two smaller silver-plated domed covers fitting small meat dishes, mark of Christofle

Three silver-plated oval warming stands for medium and small meat dishes, with removable warming plates and burners, mark of Christofle;

Together with a shaped oval silver-plated mirror plateau with gadrooned rim and standing on four bracket feet, mark of Saglier Freres, Paris, Mid-19th Century

19⁷⁄₈ in. (50.5 cm.) long, over handles, the tureen; 21¹⁄₄ in. (54 cm.)long, the large meat dishes; 19¹⁄₄ in. (49.cm) long, the medium meat dishes; 17 in. (43.2 cm.) long, the small meat dishes; 12¹⁄₄ in. (31 cm.) long, over handles, the vegetable dishes; 8⁷⁄₈ in. (22.5 cm.) diameter, the circular warming stands; 17³⁄₄ in. (45.1 cm.) long, the larger domed cover; 15¹⁄₈ in. (38.3 cm.) long, the smaller domed covers; 15¹⁄₄ in. (38.7 cm.) long, the oval warming stands; 21 in. (53.3 cm.) long, the mirror plateau
886 oz. 4 dwt. (27, 561 gr.) weighable silver

Dr. James Rush (1 March 1786 - 26 May 1869) and Mrs. Ann Ridgeway Rush (3 December 1799 - 23 October 1857), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Estate of Mrs. Charlton Henry, née Julia Rush Biddle; Samuel Freeman & Co., Philadelphia, October 29 1979.
The Keck Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 5 December 1991, lot 91.

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The monogram found on the present lot is that of Philadelphian physician James Rush (1 March, 1786 – 26 May, 1869) and his wife Ann Ridgeway, noted Francophile. Dr. Rush was the son of Benjamin Rush and grandson of Richard Stockton, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Dr. Rush and his wife occupied a large townhouse at 1914 Chestnut Street, which they furnished with $60,000 of French furniture and at which they gave an annual ball.
This dinner service was likely ordered when the couple temporarily moved to Paris in the 1840s, where his brother, Richard, was Ambassador to France. As it bears French export marks, it was subsequently shipped to Philadelphia. The service is recorded in detail in the inventory made at Dr. Rush’s death in 1869.
A French porcelain dinner service depicting various views of Philadelphia currently in the Philadelphia Museum of Art was also commissioned in the 1840's by either Richard Rush or Ann Ridgeway Rush.

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The tureen overall with some minor scuffs and scratches consistent with age and use, the body with engraving possibly removed from one side but not thin, though with a minor bruise, the cover with some minor rubbing and bruising where the finial sits, the liner with some minor bruises to sides along with two minor creases.
264 oz. (8,210 gr.), the tureen

The meat dishes overall with some scuffs and scratches consistent with age and use, including scratches and knife scratches to central wells.
360 oz. 4 dwt. (11,202 gr.), the meat dishes

The vegetable dishes with some minor scuffs and scratches overall consistent with age and use, all with some rubbing and minor bruises to the covers where the finials sit and some wear to the gilding on the finials, one with a bruise and small crease to border, all liners with rims night quite flat and some minor splits to rims.
262 oz. (8,148 gr.), the vegetable dishes

The circular warming stands with wear to the parcel-gilding, overall with minor nicks, scuffs, and scratches consistent with age and use, some areas of wear revealing base metal, the warming plates not quite flat and a bit tight in the stands, one stand wobbles slightly on a flat surface, possibly in relation to the worn cork pads, probably not original, found on all the feet.
3⁷⁄₈ in. (9.8 cm.) high, the circular warming stands

The domed covers overall with minor nicks, scuffs, and scratches consistent with age and use, as well as some minor rubbing and bruising where the finials rest, gilding to finials worn with one re-gilt.

The oval warming stands with wear to the parcel-gilding, overall with minor nicks, scuffs, and scratches consistent with age and use, some areas of wear revealing base metal, two warming plates tight in the stands and with some bruising to the rims.
4¹⁄₄ in. (10.7 cm.) high, the oval warming stands

The mirror plateau with some minor scratches consistent with age and use, the mirror plate with some minor fogging, lacking two securing screws to the wooden base.

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