Anglo-Russian Relations: An Important Edwardian Silver Presentation Cup, Cover and Sideboard Dish, R. & S. Garrard & Co., London, the design possibly by Charles Sykes, 1903-1904

the cup cast with draped female figures representing the directions, separated by scroll handles decorated with merchildren, the knop with openwork brackets, the base with applied dolphins between panels of chased wave pattern, the finial formed as a mermaid; the dish with six reserved of winged figures with goblets and bunches of grapes, the center engraved with the Royal arms and presentation inscription

The dish is engraved:
Presented by HIs Britannic Majesty's Government to Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davis, in Recognition of his Services on the International Commission of Enquiry at Paris, January 1905.

Rear Admiral Davis was an American representative for the inquiry into the North Sea Incident (also called the Dogger Bank incident). In October 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War, a Russian fleet in the North Sea mistook a British fishing fleet for their enemy and fired upon them.  Despite several deaths, the incident - and potential war between Britain and Russia - was diplomatically defused.

Charles Sykes is best known as the sculptor of "The Spirit of Ecstasy" for Rolls Royce in 1910. 

very good condition, protected by case; well-modeled and engraved
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Sykes was designing for the silver trade as early by 1903, when he created the Montagu trophy, executed by The Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Co.  He is documented working for Garrards by 1908.

The son of Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davis, who served with distinction during the Civil War, the younger Davis was born in Massachusetts in 1845.  He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Newport in 1864, and served over the next decade with the Mediterranean, South Atlantic, and Pacific squadrons.  From 1889 to 1892, he was Chief Intelligence Officer in the Office of Naval Intellegence.  He was brother-in-law to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, and died in 1921.