A Very Large Gildea & Walker Staffordshire Punch Bowl c.1885 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles probably in his early twenties

probably in his early twenties

The late nineteenth century carved and ebonised framed settee having shaped rosette ends and ring turned legs on brass casters and more recently upholstered by “The Association of Master Upholsters Soft Furnishing

dated ’36 for 1936 and indistinctly signed with a monogram (MD

by the British Empire and were clearly kept by the former owner for the best part of twenty five years before being given as a festive gift

A Very Large Gildea & Walker Staffordshire Punch Bowl c.1885 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles probably in his early twentiesOrigin: 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