Cast, embossed and gilt silver. Shallow semi-spherical dish with a slightly domed lid carved from white veined rusty red jasper agate with a pink and grey banded spherical finial. The moulded vermeil mountings with a raised basal ring and a band of finely engraved hanging acanthus tendrils beneath the rim, connected on either side by two clips. The scrolling cast silver handles on either side with sculpted griffon's heads.

Literature: Cf. cat. Il tesoro dei Medici, al Museo degli Argenti, I cataloghi di Palazzo Pitti 6, Florence 2009, cat. no. 209 ff for agate dishes with similar figural handles.