The Fortescue Cup : Bombé shaped on domed stepped foot, the plain body applied with vine tendril and with two leaf-capped scroll handles, the domed cover with pinecone finial, engraved twice on cup with a coat-of-arms and on cover with a crest, marked under foot and on cover bezel, 14 ½ in. (36.8 cm.) high, 86 oz. 4 dwt. (2,682 gr.), The arms are those of Fortescue implaing Campbell, for Matthew Fortescue, 2nd Baron Fortescue (1719-1785) and his wife Anne (d. 1812), daughter of John Campbell of Cawdor Castle and Stackpole Court, Pembrokeshire, whom he married in 1752., Provenance, Matthew Fortescue, 2nd Baron Fortescue (1719-1785).

Very little is known about Kandler’s early history,  it is thought he arrived in London from his native Dresden in 1727, he is believed he was the younger brother of the highly important Meissen Master  porcelain modeller Joachim Kandler, who used the same high rococo style in his product designs.

Kandler’s most famous piece is the great wine cooler in the Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia.