England, c1820-30, crested for Earl of Leicester

Of quite heavy weight, each ovoid melon-lobed body raised on a quatrefoil lobed foliate cast and chased base, and sided by two up-curving stem form handles issuing from acanthus leaves, below a straight neck crested on each side; the removable collar with cast floral and foliate rim above a tinned interior with a separate liner which is silvered on the interior and set on a raised ring; the crest, an ostrich on a chapeau, in mouth a horseshoe

10.5" High x 10.5" Wide over Handles

(Earl of Leicester - dating is contemporary with Thomas William Coke - Holkham Hall, Norfolk, England)