Details
Each shaped oval on four foliate scroll feet and with conforming side handles, the body embossed with swirling lobes framing a rococo cartouche later engraved with a coat-of-arms, below an egg-and-dart border, the domed cover with eagle and its prey finial, marked underneath and on cover's flange and dot numbered 1 and 2 on cover
1414 in. (36 cm.) long over handles
173 oz. 5 dwt. (5,389 gr.)
The arms are those of Guest impaling Spencer-Churchill for Sir Ivor Bertie Guest 2nd Bt., later 1st Baron Wimborne (1835-1914) and his wife Lady Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer-Churchill, daughter of John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough whom he married in 1868.

Provenance
Sir Ivor Bertie Guest 2nd Bt., later 1st Baron Wimborne (1835-1914), then by descent.
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