Three other similar rounded examples are known but each is flat-chased with stylised foliage. Not only therefore is the form extremely rare but the use of heraldry as decoration would make this a piece a unique survival of the Carolean period. The central coat-of-arms (no. iii) is a triple impalement which can be used to display the arms of the husband and two wives as described in T. Woodcock and J. M. Robinson, The Oxford Guide to Heraldry, 1988, p. 120-123, with the arms of the husband in the centre, the first wife to dexter and the second to sinister, although it is a heraldic rarity. In this instance the arms to dexter are those of Savery and it is interesting to note that the husband of Sir Richard's second daughter was one Robert Savery. There is no record however of a son-in-laws arms being impaled with those of his father-in-law and the second wife. A possible explanation is that Sir Richard had a first wife, a member of a Savery family, who died childless soon after the marriage and was not recorded in surviving pedigree

The arms either side of the handle result from the inheritance of the tankard by Susan, daughter of Sir Richard Strode and his third wife, Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Drake Kt. The arms to the left of the handle are those of Chudleigh impaling Garniere, probably for George Chudleigh (d.1739), Son of Susan and her husband Hugh Chudleigh of Ashton who died in 1749. George Chudleigh married Isabella Garniere. The arms to the right of the handle are for Chudleigh probably for George Chudleigh's son John, who succeeded to the Chudleigh baronetcy on the death of his cousin the 5th Baronet whose sister was the the infamous Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston, who was convicted for bigamy in 1776. The hand of Ulster on George's arms denotes his baronetcy. Sir John was the sixth and last Baronet as he died childless at Ostend in 1745.