A Victorian silver inkwell,

in the form of a pond with lily pad,
the surface chased to represent rippling water,
the lily pad leaves naturalistically chased,
with an applied newt and a bud emerging from the water,
with two bracket handles,
the well in the form of a bloom with hinged lid and glass liner.

A similarly themed inkwell was the last present given to
Queen Victoria by Prince Albert.

Illustrated:
Sotheby's Concise Encyclopedia of Silver, ed. C Truman,
London, 1993, p.116

marked on base and bud

Charles Thomas Fox and George Fox
(Exhibitors at The Great Exhibition, 1851)
London, 1852

Height 8 cm
Diameter 16.8 cm