A pair of George III silver-gilt salvers, Robert Garrard, London, 1802

Thomas Philip, 3rd Baron Grantham (1781-1859), by decent to The De Grey Silver Settlement,

Christie's, London, 24 March 1982, lot 96,

Christie's, New York, 19 October 2001, lot 313

The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver From the Al-Tajir Collection, Christie's, 1989, no. 112, p. 150.

J. B. Hawkins, The Al-Tajir Collection of Silver and Gold, E. & C. T. Koopman, 1983, p. 86-87.

Daily Telegraph Art Treasures Exhibition, 1928 - 1928

Christie's, London, The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, 03/01/1990 - 22/01/1990, No. 112

Thomas Philip de Grey, 3rd Baron Grantham (1781-1859) was the eldest son of Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham (1738–1786) of Newby Hall, Yorkshire, by his wife Mary Yorke (1757–1830), the younger daughter of Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke. He served in the military for over forty years and was appointed yeomanry aide-de-camp to William IV and Queen Victoria.

It is likely that he commissioned the current lot to celebrate his coming of age in 1802. The engraved coat-of-arms in an earlier style is based on that found on a silver-gilt basin and pair of ewers, marked for Benjamin Pyne, 1699, from the De Grey Silver Settlement, Christie's, London, 24 March 1982, lot 95.