On spreading foot cast and chased with gadrooned bands, the helmet shaped body applied on the lower part with pierced lambrequins below a plain moulded rib, the upper part of the body applied with gadrooned rib, the spout applied with the mask of Diana, goddess of the hunt, on cast shell, the flying handle cast as a demi female figure, the body engraved with a coat-of-arms within foliate cartouche, marked below rim
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high
66 oz. 9 dwt. (2,068 gr.)
The arms are those of Smyth, almost certainly for Sir Robert Smyth 3rd Bt. (1659-1745) M.P. for Andover. The same arms were also borne by the 1st and 2nd Smith baronets of Hatherton, Cheshire, however, the second baronet Sir Thomas Smith 2nd Bt. died without issue and unmarried in 1706.

Almost certainly Sir Robert Smyth 3rd Bt. (1659-1745) M.P. for Andover, probably by descent to,
Sir George Henry Smyth 6th Bt. (d.1852), probably by descent to his daughter,
Charlotte, wife of Thomas White of Wetherfield Manor and Berechurch Hall, Essex, probably then to their son,
Thomas George Graham White (d.1878), of Wethersfield Manor and Berechurch Hall, Essex,
Probably Wetherfield Manor; Surrige and Son, House Sale, 17 May 1877, '5,000 ounces of Silver'.
Hannah Gubbay (1885-1968), née Ezra, Mrs. David Gubbay, (b.c.1886-1968), collector and friend of Queen Mary, by 1929.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 25 May 1948, lot 87.
William Ropner; Sotheby's, London, 24 April 1959, lot 148.
With Museum Silver Shop, New York, by 1959.
Mrs. R. M. Robertson, Cambridge, Ontario.
The Robertson Collection; Christie's, New York, 27 October 1987, lot 443.
The Mahdi Al Tajir Collection, London.
A Gentleman; Christie's, New York, 14 April 2005, lot 260.

Anonymous, A Loan Exhibition of Old English Plate, London, 1929, no. 261, pl. x.
A. Grimwade, 'Period Ornamentation of English Silver of Queen Anne & George I', Apollo, March 1953, p. 87, fig. v.
The Burlington Magazine, vol. 101, no. 670, January, 1959, p. ix, advertisement.
J. Basco ed., Prized Possessions from Private Homes, Toronto, 1968, no. 689, p. 141, illustrated.
C. Truman ed., The Al Tajir Collection; The Glory of the Goldsmith, London, 1990, no. 45, pp. 66-67.

London, 25 Park Lane, A Loan Exhibition of Old English Plate, 1929, no. 261, pl. xi, Mrs David Gubbay.
Toronto, The Royal Ontario Museum, Prized Possessions from Private Homes, 1968, no. 689.
London, Christie's, The Al Tajir Collection; The Glory of the Goldsmith, January, 1990, no. 45.