This is a lovely example of an early Georgian Sterling Silver Punch Ladle or Toddy Ladle, with a turned dark wood handle.

The bowl is finely repousseed with floral and foliate motifs around a cartouche which has been engraved with a cursive monogram.

The bowl is inset with a 1723 George I Gilded Silver Shilling.

There are no hallmarks, which is typical of these ladles. The silversmith would have been given, by his client, a Silver Crown and a Silver Shilling. From the Crown he crafted the bowl, and inset the Shilling in the centre. So, because he was using Sterling Coinage, rather than 'raw' silver, there was no requirement to assay the item.

Fair antique condition, there is a small V shaped hole in the middle of the engraved cartouche which you can see in the last two pictures; also the silver component of the handle meets the bowl at an unusual angle, with a small gap showing between the handle and the bowl, suggestive of a repair, but I cannot see any other signs such as solder.

The ladle is 26.7 cm long, the bowl is 5.5 cm in diameter, and it weighs 37 g gross.