A Pair of William and Mary Silver Toilet Boxes, Benjamin Pyne, London, 1692

Sir Henry William Des Voeux, 3rd Bt. (1806-1868);

Gavin Campbell, 1st Marquess of Breadalbane (1851-1922);

Francis 'Frank' William Green (1861-1954), industrialist and collector, of The Greenway, Dulverton, Somerset, sold;

Christie's, London, 4 May 1949, lot 127 (£1,400 for the eleven piece dressing table service, to Frank Partridge);

Partridge Fine Art Ltd., London, sold;

The Collection of Lord and Lady Weinstock, sold;

Christie's, London, 22 Nov 2022, lot 175;

Where acquired by the present collector.

The arms are those of Des Voeux impaling Coventry for Sir Henry William Des Voeux, 3rd Bt. (1806-1868) and his wife Lady Sophia Catherine Gresley (d. 1875), daughter of the 7th Earl of Coventry and widow of Sir Roger Gresley 8th Bt. (1799-1837), whom he married in 1839.