Almost certainly supplied to John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe (1740-1804).
Possibly sold with the contents of Roxburghe House, Hanover Square, to the Earl of Harewood in 1795, or more likely sold by James Innes-Ker, 5th Duke of Roxburghe (1736-1823), probably at the same time as the sale of the 3rd Duke's famous library in 1812.
Miss E. M. Gibbons; Sotheby's, London, 1 February 1973, lot 161.
With J. H. Bourdon-Smith Ltd., London.
A Private Collection, Florida; Sotheby's, New York, 21 October 1997, lot 224.

V. Brett, Sotheby's Directory of Silver 1600-1940, London, 1986, no. 991, p. 223.
H. Clifford, Silver in London, The Parker and Wakelin Partnership, 1760-1776, London, 2004, pp. 155-156.
J. Culme and J. S. Strang, Antique Silver and Silver Collecting, illustrated on dust jacket.
M. Snodin, 'Adam Silver Reassessed', The Burlington Magazine, January 1997, pp. 17-25, fig. 41 and cover of magazine.

The son of a Midlands merchant, Thomas Heming was apprenticed to Edmund Bodington on March 7, 1738, and turned over on the same day to the Huguenot goldsmith Peter Archambo. He registered his first mark in June 1745; in 1760 he was appointed principal goldsmith to King George III, in which capacity he was responsible for supplying regalia and plate required for the coronation. Heming held this appointment until 1782, when he was ousted after an investigation into his apparently excessive charges. Grimwade (1976, p. 543) comments that "some of his earlier surviving pieces in the Royal collection show a French delicacy of taste and refinement of execution which is unquestionably inherited from his master Archambo." Among Heming's outstanding works are a silver-gilt toilet service made for Queen Caroline of Denmark in 1766 (Dankse Kunstidustrimuseum, Copenhagen; Hernmarck 1977, pl. 727) and a wine cistern of 1770, made for Speaker Brownlow (Belton House, Lincolnshire; Grimwade 1974, pl. 12).