Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A fine Regency silvergilt presentation cup in the form of a Warwick vase wine cooler, on a coppergilt plinth, the vase cast with masks, vine tendril handles and two lion pelts with texturing below a frieze of fruiting vines, with lift-off collar and screw in liner, both crested, the foot engraved with a coat of arms and inscribed "Presented by the Officers of the 7th (Queens OWN) Hussars to Col. Edward Kerrison in token of the Respect excited by his Conduct At the Battle of Orthes 27th February 1814 and as a mark of the Regard & Esteem they feel towards him August 1814" the plinth with an upper border of tongue and dart,