Details
A Regency partly fluted oval soup tureen and cover on richly chased acanthus foliage and scroll supports, reeded ring handles chased with shells and foliage and issuing from lions' masks, with shell and gadrooned border, the domed cover with lion mask and reeded handle, engraved with a presentation inscription and the arms and crest of Threipland by Paul Storr, 1811, weight 180oz., 18in. (45.7cm) wide.
Further details
The inscription reads, '12th April 1810, presented to Stuart Moncrieff Threipland Esq., late Advocate General at Bombay by the Native Inhabitants of that Settlement, testimony of their high respect for his character, their sense of his honorable and upright conduct and their sincere regret at his recent departure from India'.