Each with cartouche shaped back plate, repoussé and chased with a gadrooned pediment applied with two vases and later with an earl's coronet above, the centres later engraved with a coat-of-arms within laurel wreath, the scroll branch with shell terminal, the later circular drip-pan with raised gallery and spool-shaped socket, the back-plate applied with a hook and engraved 'No 15' or 'No 16', with maker's mark four times on front plate; the sockets with leopard's head erased only
9³⁄₄ in. (24.8 cm.) high
54 oz. 17 dwt. (1,706 gr.)
The arms are those of Cust quartering Pury, Woodcock, Brownlow, Drury and Bankes, for Sir John Cust, 5th Bt., 1st Earl Brownlow (1779-1853), of Belton House, Lincolnshire.

Sir John Cust, 5th Bt., 1st Earl Brownlow (1779-1853), of Belton House, Lincolnshire, then by descent to,
The Lord Brownlow and the Trustees of the Brownlow Chattels Settlement Belton House, Christie’s House Sale, 30 April to 2 May 1984, lot 474.

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PHILIP ROLLOS
Goldsmith Philip Rollos was one of the most successful and celebrated Huguenot goldsmiths in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Although little is known about his early life and career, Rollos appears in the denization list of 1691 and obtained his freedom from the Goldsmith’s Company in 1697. He served as Subordinate Goldsmith for King William III and Queen Anne and was patronized by the Crown through the early years of the reign of George I.

THE BROWNLOW SILVER
The Brownlow and Cust families were known to be voracious collectors of silver and patrons of renowned silversmiths. A 1721 inventory of Belton House lists 8,900 ounces of silver and silver-gilt, valued at £2,422. This extraordinary collection was later expanded upon by Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow (1744-1807), who notably acquired 4,000 ounces of plate upon his appointment as Speaker of the House of Commons in 1761. The plate collection at Belton was always admired, as shown by a newspaper report of a ball at Belton in 1833, ‘The decorations of the table were exceedingly beautiful and the display of costly plate superb’, A Tinniswood, Belton House, London, 1992, p. 43.