A Victorian silver novelty hunting cruet set

A Victorian silver novelty hunting cruet set,

by E. C. Brown, London 1880, retailed by Henry Lewis, 172 New Bond Street,

with a central pull-out pepper pot modelled as a crazed huntsman holding a fox above his head, on a rectangular base, with two flush hinged compartments, on four bracket feet, engraved with two crests, length 12.2cm, height 17.8cm, approx. weight 15oz.

The character is likely to be one of those featured in one of the Sporting novels and stories by Robert Smith Surtees.

The crests are those of Pauncefoot-Duncombe, of Brickhill Manor, Buckinghamshire, created baronets in 1859.