A Neo-Classical Style Silver Plated Samovar. The urn shaped body engraved with a stork & snake, and having an ebony-tapped spout to the front, gadrooned rim, reeded strap handles either side and four reeded strap legs tapering down to lion paw feet set on a quadriform base with burner to the centre. The lid swept up to the centre and surmounted by an ebony urn finial. The piece mounted on a moulded ebonised quadriform pedestal, 18'' (46 cm) in height.