A silver-gilt statuette of a Roman general on horseback, on a rocky base with a spool-shaped plinth and domed foot.  The warrior has a moustache and wears a plumed helmet, a cloak fastened with rosettes at the shoulders, a skirted tunic and textured boots, with a sword at his hip; he holds a baton on his right hand.  The plinth and foot are embossed with profiles of Socrates and Hippocrates.

An almost identical figure of a warrior on a rearing horse, also by Heinrich Mannlich and dating to around 1670-4, was part of a gift from Charles XI to the Russian tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in 1674 (now in the Kremlin Museum, Moscow).  Both examples are ewers, the fringe of the mane acting to hide an opening to a receptacle for water.  Mannlich seems to have specialised in silver vessels of this type – among his surviving works are ewers formed as eagles, a swan, lions, a hound and a stag.

Rider's cloak and base struck with mark of Augsburg and maker's mark of Heinrich Mannlich; rider's tunic, rocky base and base struck with later tax mark.