Beschreibung:

Each oval vase shape on spreading foot, the body part fluted and with gadrooned borders and applied with angular loop handles, the covers with detachable leaf capped reeded loop handle, the plain liners with scroll handles, engraved on body with a coat-of-arms and on covers and liners with a crest, marked on foot rim, cover and underside of liner, the bases numbered and engraved with scratch weights No. 1. 136:7 and No. 2 . 137:7, the liners with No. 1 - 28:18 and No. 2 - 28:4, the covers with 1 and 2 18 in. (45.5 cm) long 328 oz. 18 dwt. (10,230 gr) The arms are those of Glynne, for Sir Stephen Richard Glynne 8th Bt. (1780-1815), of Harwarden Castle, co. Flint. He was born posthumously and came of age in 1801, the year he commissioned his dinner service from Robert Sharp He married Mary, daughter Richard Aldworth Neville, 2nd Lord Braybrooke, in 1806. They had three children, a son also named Stephen Richard, who succeeded his father as 9th baronet in 1815, a second son Henry who entered the church and a daughter Catherine (d.1900) who married the Rt. Hon William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) M.P. for the University of Oxford in 1839 and Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on four occasions.