Antique Sterling Silver Gilt Engraved Vinaigrette Birmingham Gervase Wheeler Decorative Arts engraved with Hieroglyphics

engraved with Hieroglyphics

living in Mayfair

oil on canvas signed Marin

Roger Vandercruse (dit Lacroix)

The painting is signed lower right and also to the to the rear of the canvas & is titled "Vino Con Frutos"

Antique Sterling Silver Gilt Engraved Vinaigrette Birmingham Gervase Wheeler Decorative Arts engraved with HieroglyphicsA 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