Walpole tureen

Soup tureen of oblong form with shaped ends, raised on four lion's paw feet with entwined tails and headed by lion masks, the sides applied with alternating straps and bellflowers against a matted ground with an upper border of ogee arches, the rim applied with a dot-and-dash band, with two hinged scroll handles issuing from a cartouche of rocaille and scrolls against matting; applied underneath with a pendant drop with further dot-and-dash and radiating acanthus leaves; the domed removable cover applied with similar straps and with gadrooned rim, surmounted by a double-scroll handle on a circular pedestal with conforming decoration; engraved on both sides of body and cover with the Walpole crest enclosed by the Order of the Garter; engraved under the base of the body with scratch weight 105-14, the interior of the cover with scratch weights 150 oz; 150-5; and (probably the oldest and possibly the original) 45;10; struck with hallmarks and maker's mark on interior flange of body and interior of cover.