A Very Large Gildea & Walker Staffordshire Punch Bowl c.1885 antiques Period: Early Nineteenth Century

Period: Early Nineteenth Century

both with some surface wear with a good amount of encrusted patination to the inner turnings

bells were important in so much as if the children were near enough to hear the school bell ring then they only had another 10 minutes to arrive

Length: 11 inches (at maximum)

The Figure: 5

A Very Large Gildea & Walker Staffordshire Punch Bowl c.1885 antiques Period: Early Nineteenth CenturyOrigin: 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