A George IV silver-gilt rosewater dish, Paul Storr for Storr & Mortimer, London, 1823, the centre set with a 17th Century German dish, Philipp Müller, Nuremberg, circa 1685

shaped circular, the border cast, chased and embossed with cartouches of flowers and fruit, engraved with the initials ALM, the reverse engraved with an inscription and applied with pendant ring, the centre of the Nuremberg dish embossed with Jacbo's ladder within flowers, in wood case

One outer lobe bent slightly downwards, otherwise overall condition is excellent
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The inscription reads: 'This Dish weighing 78 ^oz 13 ^dwt has been made to receive an old Chased Medallion of unknown Assay weighing 7 ^oz 10 ^dwt which is to be added without solder.'
The scene of Jacob's ladder is after an engraving by Matthäus Merian I (1593-1650) from his Iconum Biblicarum, first published Strasburg, 1625-30.