Each with shaped oval backplate with earl's coronet cresting, cast and chased with scrolls on a matted ground and with two putti holding an oval ribbon-tied laurel wreath centered by a detachable cypher 'HC', the lower edge mounted with a scrolled branch supporting a spool-shaped socket and gadrooned drip pan, marked on reverse and on sockets; with scratch weights 22=2 and 23=3 / 22:15; each fitted with later suspension hook
7¹⁄₂ in. (19 cm.) high
45 oz. (1,401 gr.)
The cypher HC with earl's coronet above is likely to be for Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon (1638-1709), who succeeded his father in 1674. A study of earldoms extant in 1695 does not suggest any other possible candidate.

Anonymous sale [L. Easton Smith Esq.]; Christie's, London, 6 December 1905, lot 48, (£350 to Crichton Brothers).
Clarence Chesney Wilson (1873-1936), son of Australian millionaire Sir Samuel Wilson,
Clarence Wilson Esq., of Grove Place, Nursling, Hampshire and 105 Mount Street, London; Christie's, London, 22 May 1913, lot 227 (£190 to Crichton Brothers).
with Crichton Brothers, London, from 1913.

J. Starkie Gardner F.S.A, Old Silver-Work, Chiefly English, from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries Exhibited, St. James's Court. Exhibition catalogue. London, 1903, pp. 76-77, pl. LXXXIV, fig. 2.
Sir Charles Jackson, An Illustrated History of English Plate, Ecclesiastical and Secular , London, 1911, p. 859, fig. 1118, Crichton Brothers.

London, St. James's Court, Old Silver-Work, Chiefly English, from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries, London, 1902, Case F., no. 33, lent by Crichton Bros.

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