Round dish with fluted rim, diameter 27.8 cm. Underneath engraved: No 12 and a weight indication 52 3/4 l (lod/loth). Weight 699 g.
The dish was made in Paris of 950 standard silver as seen by the silver standard mark of a walking cock in an octagonal reserve with a border, and the guarantee mark of a Minerva head facing right in a circular reserve. These marks were in use 1809-1819.
The maker was J.A. Berel, hollowware maker, working at 24 rue des Fossés-St-Germain. He registered his mark 1810-1811.