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Spill vase, soft-paste porcelain, standing on a flat triangular base with incurved sides, three lion's-paw feet with acanthus-leaf upper terminal supporting the bowl which has a curved bottom with a central boss and vertical sides rising to a sharply flared rim, a row of beading round the base and below the rim; decorated on the side with a view of Castell Coch and gilt acanthus scrolls on a pale blue ground, plain gilding on the outside and inside of the rim, round the base and on the boss and legs, gilt pendent motifs inside the rim and under the bottom of the bowl, caillouté gilding on the base, the edge of the base with gilt and dark green enamelled bands.

A spill vase was used to hold wooden sticks or paper tapers that were used to take a light from the fire. This example was made in Worcester, but is decorated with a view of Castell Coch, based on an aquatint of 1806 by J Hassell.