A Very Large Gildea & Walker Staffordshire Punch Bowl c.1885 antiques showing in clear detail

showing in clear detail

Remaining in very good overall condition considering their relative fragility

The first would have once carried sodium bicarbonate

the central octagonal playing field having composition hockey players at each goal

This is a large Ziegler carpet with a shimmering blue colour that would make any floor an ocean

A Very Large Gildea & Walker Staffordshire Punch Bowl c.1885 antiques showing in clear detailOrigin: 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