A Pair of George II Silver Waiters, George Wickes, London, 1745

Christie's, London, 29 June 1977, lot 57 (part)

Dreweatts 1759, Newbury, UK, 20 October 1999, lot 484.

The arms are those of Lyttleton accollé with Russell for Sir Richard Lyttleton K.B. (d. 1770) and his wife Rachael, daughter of the 2nd Duke of Bedford and widow of the 1st Duke of Bridgewater, whom he married 1745. Horace Walpole remarked to Sir Horace Mann on 14 May 1761: "You will be happy to in Sir Richard Lyttleton and his daughter, the are the best humored people in the world." A pair of 13-inch salvers, en suite with the present lot, is illustrated by Elaine Barr in George Wickes, Royal Goldsmith, p. 118, pl. 73.