These vine-wreathed and vase shaped ice-pails or wine-coolers, are embellished with roman-foliage, laurels and festive satyr-mask handles that are tied by a berried ribbon guilloche. Their Classical wine-krater form and ornament recall the celebrated vases of antiquity, such as the Borghese and Warwick vases, which Henry Moses illustrated in his, Collection of Antique Vases, 1814 (plates 37 and 450, and combined with the flower guilloche, after the French manner, they typify the 'Antique' style introduced during the Regency of King George IV. They were designed and executed by the Mathew Boulton plate company of Birmingham, and correspond to a silver version bearing the 1817 date-letter. (see Kenneth Crisp Jones, The Silversmiths of Birmingham, Fakenham, 1981, figure 28.