A Very Large Gildea & Walker Staffordshire Punch Bowl c.1885 antiques presumed man and wife

presumed man and wife

The first would have once carried sodium bicarbonate

Remaining in very good overall condition considering their relative fragility

The attractive early-nineteenth century chinoiserie slipper chair of low form almost certainly by Crace

A Very Large Gildea & Walker Staffordshire Punch Bowl c.1885 antiques presumed man and wifeOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1885 Diameter: 18. 5 inches (at maximum) Height: 9. 5 inches The transfer decorated pottery bowl with its interior decorated with four drunken Bacchic putti beneath a frieze of other frolicking and drunken Bacchic putti, the similarly decorated exterior raised on an elaborate sea life base moulded with three figural dolphins, shells, weed and coral, the base impressed marked 1 6 85