Each on square base with canted angles and gadrooned border, the baluster stem applied with four lions' masks and with partly fluted vase-shaped socket and detachable nozzles, each engraved with a crest with duke's coronet above, marked underneath, numbered '1' and '2'
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high
52 oz. 18 dwt. (1,646 gr.)
The crest is that of Grenville, for the Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776-1839) or his son Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1797-1861).

Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776-1839) or,
Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1797-1861)
The Stowe House; Christie's House Sale, 15 August 1848, and for 37 days, probably part of lot 407.
Thomas Hugh Cobb (1863-1944), solicitor and collector of 9 The Manor, Davies Street, Mayfair, London.
The Executors of the late Thomas Hugh Cobb Esq.; Sotheby's, London, 19 October 1944, lot 26.
with S. J. Phillips Limited, London.

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Although unrecorded, this maker's mark is found on many fine pieces made in the later years of the 17th Century, including a William III silver-gilt ewer, sold from the collection of the late Hilmer Reksten, Christie's, London, 22 May 1991, lot 142.