A PARCEL-GILT TAPERING LIDDED FLAGON on a domed circular foot chased with shells, foliage and strapwork the body chased with friezes of arabesques and engraved with armorials, crowns and a motto, the similarly chased flattened domed cover with cast foliate and fruit finial and bifurcate scroll thumb-piece, with a double scroll handle, the underneath inscribed 'J.J. Plato VI Past in Halb: d.24 Decemb: Ao 1746', maker's mark J.G.C. in clover-shaped shield, Breslau, 1746-1758