A William IV Silver Oval Soup Tureen and Cover, Paul Storr, London, 1833

the body partly gadrooned and applied with a band of anthemia and palm, engraved on one side with arms beneath a foliate mantle, the gadrooned rim with double-shells flanked by acanthus at intervals, and with leaf-capped reeded loop handles springing from lion masks and centered by shells, raised on an oval foot chased with a band of leaves, the conforming cover crested

The arms are those of Ainsworth impaling Stirling for Thomas Ainsworth Esq. of the Flosh, Cleator,  J.P., high Sheriff, co Cumberland, 1861, born 1804 and married in in 1837 Mary Laurie, eldest daughter of Rev John Stirling D.D. of Craigie, co. Ayr.  He died in 1861

marks slightly rubbed, inscription probably removed from side opposite arms, repairs under foot probably from being pushed into body
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