Made of heavy-gauge silver, the urn-shaped bulbous body has two opposing reeded loop handles bound, which rise from clusters of grape or hop leaves. The broad, everted lip has a gadrooned edge. The now-missing separate inner liner (likely made of silver or glass) would have held the ice. The body rests on a circular stepped pedestal foot with a plain stem and acanthus leaf and bead borders. Atop the dome-shaped cover is a two-tiered, mushroom-shaped knob. The vessel is decorated with a variant of the Kutch flowering scroll, exquisitely rendered in deep relief. There are no human, animal, or avian figures. The matte background behind the flowering scrolls was created with fine stippling made by circular punch marks.
The vessel form is based on the ancient Greek calyx-krater, a ceramic vase for wine mixed with water, sometimes called the Italian campana or campania vase form. The upward-curled handles set low on the body give the vessel an outline resembling the calyx of a flower, hence its descriptive name. The assimilation of the Greco-Roman vessel form into the Kutch repertoire was undoubtedly influenced by the Neoclassical movement in European art (mid-18th and early 19th centuries), when ornate, krater-shaped ice pails and wine coolers were being fashioned in gold, gilded silver, or silver, as well as in enameled and gilded porcelain.
A monogram shield at the base of the neck is inscribed WS(?). Under the lip is inscribed: From Mr. Gocaldass Faizhall [Gokaldas Faizal?].
