A GILT METAL PRESENTATIONVASE AND COVER decorated all over with meandering flowers and foliage,

A GILT METAL PRESENTATION VASE AND COVER decorated all over with meandering flowers and foliage, with flower finial and lion ring mask handles, inscribed, GIVEN BY THE HONble MOUNT STUART ELPHINSTONE TO GEORGE ELPHINSTONE ADMIRAL VISCOUNT KEITH, 1353 grams and with ebonised base, 30cm high Possibly Anglo Indian Mountstuart Elphinstone FRSE was a Scottish statesman and historian (1779 - 1859)associated with the government of British India and became Governor of Bombay. George Keith Elphinstone 1st Viscount Keith GCB, FRS (1746 - 1823) was a British naval officer throughout the Napoleonic Wars Condition Report: THE COVER CUT WITH A NOTCH TO THE INNER RIM AND RIM EDGE UNEVEN, the foot unscrews from the body and the join is slightly skewed to one side