A rock crystal vessel of which only the fragmented lower part remains. With a diminished arch profile and an oval mouth, it is cut relatively thick, following the pattern of a smooth upper band separated by mouldings and a gadrooned lower part. This is an evolution of the classical egg-and-dart model that is also found on the Rock crystal ewer with Narcissus and Echo at the Prado, O77. The oval foot is fairly low. According to the historic inventories, it had a broad mount on the edge of the cover with garlands of flowers and fruit bound by ribbons, enamelled in blue, green, white and red, and decorated with inset precious stones, specifically four diamonds and four rubies. The vessel had been badly damaged when it returned from Paris after the Peninsular War, and by then lacked both its rock crystal cover and its rich mounts.

The missing rock crystal cover perhaps had the same decorative pattern of gadroons and darts, as well as two gold mounts enamelled in green, blue, black and red and enriched with diamonds and rubies. It was crowned by a figure of Bacchus seated on grapes, also enamelled in white, green and black and decorated with four rubies, as described in the 1746 inventory carried out at La Granja de San Ildefonso.