On four scroll feet, from which dragons’ heads rise, the bulbous body is decorated with applied cherubs’ heads and festoons of flowers, with lambrequin and strapwork cartouches between and a guilloche moulding above, the handles are formed as lions standing on projecting scrolls, with everted fluted rim and an inner border of applied shells and scrolls, the centre engraved with a coat of arms in baroque cartouches, width without handles 114.3cm. Maker’s mark only.
The arms are those of Cecil with Chambers in pretence for Brownlow, 8th Earl of Exeter (1701-1754), who married in 1724 Hannah Sophia, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Chambers of London and Derby.
