Porringer decorated in brown, blue and green on a cream ground. In the hollow of the porringer is a central six-petalled motif in brown, each filled with green or blue, with brown sprays in between. Surrounding this are simple chevrons in the three colours.Around the edge two concentric brown lines form a border between which are sprays of brown, blue and green lines.
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