Of bulbous form on a short foot, decorated with four panels of sprays of leaves against a stippled ground within punch-beaded borders, the base embossed with a flower within punch-bead border, wirework scroll handles and gilt interior, late 18th century monogram MAK in conjoined script with flourishes; also scratched verso “Hwd 89”.

Maker's mark ‘I.G, a mullet between and a crescent below, within a heart-shaped punch, twice marked with additional indiscernible adjacent small round punches.

A cup by this maker is also listed in Goldsmith and the Grape, catalog for Goldsmith Hall’s exhibition of the same name, July 1983: p. 18, #41, with the royal cipher C.R for Charles II (courtesy of the Worshipful Company of Vinters).