SOLD.........A Chinese silver filigree posy holder with enamel decoration. 19thc

SOLD.........A Chinese silver filigree posy holder with enamel decoration. 19thcA very attractive posy holder tussie mussie in silver filigree lacework with blue enamel highlights. The handle is in the form of a fish with the petal holder in its mouth. The finger ring and flower spike are the originals It is in very good condition with only the occasional tiny bit of enamel lacking. However there is a small loss to the tip of one shaped 'petal' see last photo. 16 cm long 6 inches Stock no. GS46

Inside is a thick notepad of thin fawn coloured paper

Members of Parliament and naval and military officers

The slider is gilt as are the metal barrel shaped ends

Avery & Son Redditch and the diamond registration mark

finger ring span just over 4 cm ( 1

are made from some form of worked and painted plaster work

It is fluted and spiked and uses shades of mauve in the glass body

The steel blades are undamaged

The pair 4

5 cm high x 3 cm in diameter

Levi Welch turned king’s evidence and accused Worsley of the killing and so escaped the gallows

The gilded porcelain is painted in apple green with a frieze of red roses above