In the Renaissance Revival taste, chased throughout with strapwork, lobes and bosses applied with masks, on shaped round feet with multi-knopped stems, the round bodies with gadroon and bellflower rims, the covers with urn finials, each engraved to the side with a coat-of-arms, marked on sides, further stamped on base rim R. & S. GARRARD PANTON ST. LONDON
26³⁄₄ in. (67.9 cm.) high
250 oz. 2 dwt. (7,779.5 gr.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, October 24 2007, lot 67.

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The arms are those of Cust under an Earl's coronet. These may be for John William Spencer Brownlow (Egerton, afterwards Egerton Cust), who succeeded his Grandfather as 2nd Earl Brownlow in 1853 - aged only 11. He died in 1867 and was succeed by his brother Adelbert as 3rd Earl Brownlow. The 3rd Earl, who used just the name of Cust, worked to restore Belton House, Lincolnshire, a late 17th century house once thought to be by Christopher Wren. The Renaissance style of these urns may have been intended to complement Belton's late baroque interiors. The house is now owned by the National Trust.