Octagonal, the stands on four leaf-capped shell and scroll feet and with plain detachable lamps, the dishes each with two scroll bracket handles, the tented covers with ring handles, with gadrooned borders, the lamps, stands, interior of dishes and covers engraved with two crests, marked on lamps, lamp covers, stands, dishes and covers, underside of the dishes stamped 'GARRARDS PANTON STREET LONDON', each with later inventory number 20/4
11¹⁄₄ in. (28.6 cm.) wide over handles

195 oz. 12 dwt. (6,085 gr.)
The crests are those of Guinness and Lee for Edward Cecil Guinness, later 1st Earl of Iveagh, K.P., G.C.V.O.(1847-1927), Chancellor of Dublin University from 1908, J.P. co. Dublin, and High Sheriff in 1876. He was created a baronet in 1885, and elevated to the peerage as Baron Iveagh of Iveagh in 1891. He was later advanced to a viscountcy in 1905 and to the Earldom of Iveagh in 1919. He married his cousin Adelaide Maria, daughter of Richard Samuel Guinness, M.P., of Deepwell, co. Dublin, in 1873.

Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, (1847-1927), then by descent to his second son,
Arthur Ernest Guinness, D.L., J.P. (1876-1949), then by descent to his eldest daughter,
Aileen Sybil Mary Plunkett (1904-1999), of Luttrellstown Castle, co. Dublin.
Luttrellstown Castle; Christie's, House Sale, 26 September 1983, lot 680.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, 12 July 1995, lot 76.