Lid of Ice pail AAA4548, part of a dessert service that belonged to Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805). Painted in full colour and gilt with a raised rim. suspended below it. Decorated with oak leaves and acorns with the borders and inscriptions in gold. 'Nelson' is inscribed on both sides of the foot of the base, which has a gilt palm leaf pattern round the waist and 'April Baltic' and 'Glorious 1st August' below the handles. The cover has oak leaf borders inside and out. Reserves in the interior repeat the chelengk and 'SAN JOSEF' crests. The exterior is inscribed above and on blue swags, 'Nelson', '14th February' (the date of the battle of Cape St. Vincent) and 'Nelson', 'San Josef'. In the centre of the cover, the inscription 'Glorious first of August'. In the inventory of the contents of his house at Merton, sold by Lady Hamilton in 1809, a dessert and tea service of this pattern is referred to as the 'Nelson Set'.