3-016-817 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Wedding presents from the Queen to the Princess of Wales: silver vase to accompany the centrepiece, 1864. An 'admirable piece of workmanship [consisting of] a silver centrepiece, of tazza form, richly chased and partially gilt...The side ornaments to accompany this piece are vases of Etruscan form, and bear on the foot of each a shield, on which are the Royal arms...and on the cover of the vase is a figure of a Welsh bard holding the harp of his country. The plate has been designed by A. J. Barrett, and executed...by Messrs. Hunt and Roskell'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.