Antique Sterling Silver Gilt Engraved Vinaigrette Birmingham Gervase Wheeler Drawings & Prints The vessel having twin gilt

The vessel having twin gilt bronze handles cast as fruiting grape vines and the urn is raised on a turned pedestal foot with a variegated dark green marble base

Hendrik Goltzius (1558-1617)

The table top having a carved gadrooned edge with substantial carved supports at each end

silver weight is 48 grams

This mixed media painting of watercolor & gouache depicting a very expressionistic image of the island in 1935 and housed in a gilded frame

Antique Sterling Silver Gilt Engraved Vinaigrette Birmingham Gervase Wheeler Drawings & Prints The vessel having twin giltA fine antique sterling silver gilt early 19th century Vinaigrette, Birmingham, by Gervase Wheeler, 1839. This beautiful vinaigrette having fine engine turned decoration on all sides, with a shield shaped cartouche to the lid and an engraved floral clasp to the front. The silver gilt interior having a pierced and engraved hinged cover which would have received a sponge with aromatic scent to smell, rather than the foul smell of the city! Both the