Navette-shaped, on four foliate scroll feet and with reeded loop handles, the basket pierced with ogival arches and applied with laurel garlands, the rim chased with Vitruvian scrolls on matted ground, engraved inside with a crest and motto, marked underneath, with workshop number 8172
13³⁄₄ in. (34.5 cm.) wide over the handles
34 oz. 15 dwt. (1,075 gr.)
The crest and motto is that of Warre of Bindon House, Somerset, as borne by Henry Warre (1795-1876). It may be for one of his two sons, the elder the Reverend Francis Warre (1834-1917), Rector of Bemerton, Wiltshire and Prebendary of Old Sarum or for the Reverend Edmond Warre (1837-1920), Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, Head Master of Eton College from 1884 to 1905, and later Provost.