Campana shaped on spreading gadrooned foot, the lower body chased with flutes and below the rim with a band of fruiting vines, applied with oak branch handles with acorn and oak-leaf terminals, the domed cover with gadrooned border and laurel wreath ring handle, the body engraved with a presentation inscription, marked on body, handle and inside cover, stamped underneath and in cover with workshop number 65
13¹⁄₂ in. (34.2 cm.) high
77 oz. 3 dwt. (2,400 gr.)
The inscription on the body reads: 'Shropshire General Agricultural Society for October 1814 to A Cup Value Sixty Guineas, the produce of Sweepstakes of ten Guineas Each, Lord Bradford, Sir W.W. Wynn, John Cotes Esq^r Col. Lyster, Sir Stephen Glynne & The Rev. Offley Crewe, Subscribers for the best and cleanest twenty Acres of Swedish Turnips'.

Won by Sir Stephen Richard Glynne in a sweepstake for the "best and cleanest twenty Acres of Swedish Turnips" at a meeting of the Shropshire General Agricultural Society held at the Lion Inn, Shrewsbury on 28 October 1814, then by descent to his son,
‌Sir Stephen Richard Glynne 9th Bt. (1807-1874), of Harwarden Castle, co. Flint., then by decent to his nephew,
‌William Henry Gladstone (1840-1891), of Harwarden Castle, co. Flint, then by descent to his son,
‌William Glynne Charles Gladstone (1885-1915), of Harwarden Castle, co. Flint, then by acquisition to his uncle,
Henry Neville Gladstone, 1st Baron Gladstone of Hawarden (1852-1935), then by decent to his nephew,
‌Sir Albert Charles Gladstone 6th Bt. (1886-1967), of Harwarden Castle, co. Flint, then by deed of gift in 1946 to his brother,
‌Sir Charles Andrew Gladstone 6th Bt. (1888-1968) of Harwarden Castle, co. Flint, then by descent to his son,
‌Sir (Erskine) William Gladstone 7th Bt. K.G. (1925-2018), of Harwarden Castle, co. Flint, then by descent.

Glynne of Hawarden Estate Records, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Mss. 146, An Inventory of plate at Hawarden Castle, Feb. 1831, '1 Prize Cup'.

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