Of octogonal form and decorated in the famille rose palette with the coat of arms of Zenon de Somodevilla y Bengoechea, 1st Marquess of Ensenada, 1. Purpure, an arm brandishing a sword in bend sinister argent between two Moor’s head crowned or. 2. Azure, a tower and on the sinister three mullets in pale argent. 3. Purpure, a griffin spewing fire argent. 4. Argent, on a mount a tree all vert with a wolf at its foot, Bengoechea. All within a bordure argent with eight escallops purpure. The three first quarters and the bordure are the arms of Somodevilla lineage, beneath a marquess coronet, joined to the shield by the cross of Calatrava. a privilege that he was granted in 1742.
The cavetto is decorated with an iron-red and gilt honeycomb diaper reserved with height small panels in blue with a Demi-floret of white petals. On the rim are four groupings of flowers painted in translucent enamels in a combinaison of green, blue, red white, and gold. To the right and left are birds amongst rock work and flowers including peony, chrysanthemum, plum blossom and bamboo. At the top and bottom are groups of different allegorical motifs the canopy, one of the eight buddhist symbols of good fortune, a lantern symbol of happiness, the ruyi symbol of longevity, a pomegranate sub of fertility, a jar and peonies.
Zenon de Somodevilla was Knight of the Order of Calatrava (1742), where he became the Knight Commander of Piedrabuena and the Pena de Martos; Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gennaro (1744); Secretary to the Queen (1747); Honorary Captain General of the Fleet and the Army (1749); Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece (1750); and Grand Cross of the Order of St. John of Malta (1750).
