A 19th Century Regency Race Trophy

Silver-gilt London, 1812 Maker's mark of J.W. Story & William Elliot
Height: 36cm, 14.1in Weight: 3,060g, 98oz 6dwt

The campagna-shape cup and cover with artichoke finial the main body with a cast and applied border of grape and vine. The festooned fruit handles terminating in Bacchic masks. One side with a cast scene of two horses and jockeys inside a laurel wreath. The other engraved ' The Perak Stakes won by Shamrock Slipper'