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Wrought silver presentation hot water urn and stand; apple-shaped body with a repoussé chased gadrooned rim; high, narrow, bell-shaped, domed lid with a gadrooned band with a flame in cup finial; seated on an hour-glass shaped pedestal on a square foot with a gadrooned band and pierced rail, supported by four cast ball and claw feet; two beaded spiral handles tapering into leaf-form joints; spigot with chased leaf decoration and a wooden spigot; engraved on one side of the body, above the spigot with the crest of the Cruger family, a demi-greyhound on fess; on the opposite side engraved with the arms of the Cruger family, shield in halves, on the left, three martlets on bend between two greyhounds proper, on the right three martlets in a chevron, all surounded by the sea with a three-masted ship flying the Union Jack to the right and water flowing into an urn on the left; engraved below the arms, "THE GIFT OF THE CITIZENS/ OF/ Bristol/ TO/ Henry Cruger Esq./ FOR SERVICES PERFORMED IN PROMOTING/ THE REPEAL OF THE STAMP ACT/ ANNO DOM 1766./ MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT/ REIGN GEORGE III" in block letters and gothic script; all on a square stand with a gadrooned band, supported by four ball feet; engraved in the center, "Exhibited/ in Colonial Room/ of the/ Metropolitan Museum/ during the/ Hudson Fulton Celebration/ 1909/ Exhibited by the Colonial Dames/ in their Ecclesiastical Exhibition of silver/ at the Metropolitan Museum/ Season of 1912/ in the Historical Department" in script; maker's marks stamped on the bezel and inside the base of the urn.