Cream jug, part of a tea set owned by Horatia Nelson (1801-81) daughter of Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson.

Silver-gilt cream jug with a beaded trefoil lip. The body below the lip is engraved with the full Hamilton coat of arms with supporters and a crest of a saw cutting down a tree arising out of a duke's coronet, with the motto 'THROUGH'. The arms also incorporate the mottoes: 'TRIA JUNCTA IN UNO' and 'SOLE NOBILITAT VIRTUS'. Below is inscribed: 'FROM EMMA LADY HAMILTON TO HER DEAR HORATIA 29TH OCTR 1811.'

29 October was the date given by Lady Hamilton as Horatia's birthday, although it was actually circa 29 January 1801. The sugar basin was part of Horatia's silver-gilt tea set (see also PLT0162 and PLT0164) presented to the NMM in 1939 by the Reverend Hugh Nelson-Ward and his late brother Admiral Philip Nelson-Ward, grandsons of Horatia.