A Very Large Gildea & Walker Staffordshire Punch Bowl c.1885 antiques making drawing and surveying instruments

making drawing and surveying instruments and in 1866 published the first edition of his Treatise on Drawing Instruments

having six mechanisms to include a crier and smoker

showing in clear detail

The first would have once carried sodium bicarbonate

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 making drawing and surveying instrumentsOrigin: 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