The ewer is associated with a pair of rosewater dishes, each item engraved with the presentation inscription: ‘To Lord Burghley on his marriage, 1875.’
Lord Burghley (1849-1898), inherited as 4th Marquess of Exeter on the death of his father in 1895.
Sadly, he died only three years later at the age of forty eight; his tenure particularly short.
Frederick Elkington’s father patented the first commercial electroplating process.
