The hinged cover surmounted by an embracing Bacchus and Ariadne amongst waves on a leaf-tip base, with four putto figures surrounding, the cylindrical body carved to show horses, swans, sea-monsters and nude nereids emerging from a turbulent sea, the handle in the form of a mermaid above a C-scroll, the base with four feet in the form of putti on sea-monsters amongst rock-work and shells.