A George III gilt-lined inverted bell-shaped cup and cover on a gadrooned rising foot and with a moulded body band and rim and two leaf-capped double scroll handles, the gadrooned domed detachable cover with spiral-fluted finial, later-engraved with an armorial, crest and motto and also with interesting later inscription: I Give To Sir William Heathcote Of Hursley Park, Baronet, M.P., and Request His Acceptance of the Sum of #50 and It Is My Wish That He Will If He Thinks Fit So To Do Lay Out This Said Sum In the Purchase of a Cup or Tankard to Be Used From Time to Time at the Audit Dinner for the Hursley Estate at Which I have Been in the Habit of Presiding for Nearly Forty Years and At Which My Family Has Presided for Nearly One Hundred Years. Extract From the Will of Matthias Thomas Hodding Esqre., Steward of the Manor of Merdon who departed this life on the 20th day of May 1863", Aaron Lesturgeon, London 1763 - 13¼in., 54oz.