The arms are those of Mildmay with those of Schomberg on an escutcheon of pretence, as borne by Benjamin Mildmay, 19th Baron Fitzwalter and 1st Earl Fitzwalter (1672-1756), son of Benjamin Mildmay (1645-1679) and his wife Catherine, daughter of William Fairfax, 3rd Viscount Fairfax. He married in 1724, Frederica, eldest daughter and co-heir of Meinhardt, 3rd Duke of Schomberg (1641-1719) and widow of Robert Darcy, Earl of Holderness and was created Earl Fitzwalter on May 16, 1735. Swift wrote of the Earl "so avarice a wretch that he would let his own father be buried without a coffin to save charges."

A set of twelve plates also by Paul de Lamerie of 1725, matching the present dish, is in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, and three meat dishes and dinner plates from the same service were sold by Sotheby's, New York, October 27, 1976, lots 404-406.