One of a pair of sauce tureens (see also PLT0748). Boat-shaped body with a gadrooned top rim on an oblong plinth. The lid is domed with a reeded loop handle. One side is engraved with Nelson's coat of arms as Viscount. with the mottos, 'TRIA JUNCTA IN UNO', 'PALMAM QUI MERUIT FERAT'. The other side inscribed 'Presented by the Committee appointed to manage the Subscription raised for the benefit of the Wounded and the Relatives of those who were Killed in the glorious Victory obtained off Copenhagen on the 2 of April 1801, to Vice Admiral LORD NELSON K.B. DUKE of BRONTE &c &c &c in testimony of the high sense entertained of his meritorious and unprecidented exertions in defence of his Country , which at the Peril & danger of his life he so nobly sustained previously to the Engagement, and as a token of his brilliant and gallant Conduct during the whole of that memorable Action. Lloyd's Coffee House John Julius Angerstein Chairman.' The cover has the chelengk crest on one side with a naval crown and Viscount’s coronet, on the other side the 'San Josef' crest, wrongly inscribed 'VANGUARD' and the motto 'FAITH AND WORKS'.