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Bowl, silver, supported by three scroll feet each comprising a snake's body terminating in a lion's head that forms a handle, the bowl double curved and shaped into nine lobes round its upper half, an applied rim in the form of alternating squares in relief between simple reeded bands; the sides chased and embossed with flowers and acanthus leaves, engraved on different sides with the arms of Bligh, an earl's coronet and the Cap of Maintenance with the inscription ': Ex dono : / J. B. / 1673.'