The arms are those of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, Marquess of Buckingham, born in 1776. He assumed the additional surname of Bridges and Chandos having married the heiress of those families. In 1822 he was created Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, this being the only dukedom created by George IV, who it is said to have conferred that dignity on him as a mark of his personal friendship. In fact it was part of a bargain by which Lord Liverpool secured the support of the Grenville band for the Tory party, on which occasion Lord Holland remarked that "all articles were now to be had at low prices except Grenville." The Duke was a greedy politician "never satisfied but always asking for more." Sir Charles Bagot wrote at this time: "I am glad that the Grenvilles are taken into the Government; and (for Grenvilles) they come tolerably cheap. I see no objection to a Dukedom in the head of the Grenville family, but I see many to giving it to the actual blubber head who now reigns over them." [Complete Peerage]

He died in 1839 and was succeeded by his only son who by a system of accumulating estates purchased with borrowed money and by excessive expenditure became, within eight years of his succession, a ruined man. The Times wrote censoriously of the Duke "as a man of the highest rank, and of a property not unequal to his rank, who has flung away all by extravagance and folly, and reduced his honour to the tinsil of a pauper and the baubles of a fool," The contents of his country seat Stowe were sold by Christie's in a forty-day sale from August to October 1848 realising a total of L75,562.

Two wine coolers by the same maker of 1804 and 1806, of the same form but with swan's neck handles were sold in these Rooms April 19, 1990, lot 212 and Sotheby's, New York, April 13, 1988, lot 218 respectively.