Penrose Antiques

Description

We have for sale a charming and very attractive silver small/miniature silver ewer by the Sheffield silversmiths John & William F Deakin.

This rather unusual lidded silver ewer is of a small slender baluster form with a high looped and circular foot. The body of the ewer is beautifully decorated with a scrolling foliate design incorporating a vacant cartouche to the front. The upper body of the ewer also carries full English hallmarks for Sheffield 1913, along with the makers marks for John & William F Deakin, and the inside of the lid also carries the makers marks along with the English lion sterling silver mark.

The ewer is approximately 5.3 inches (13.5cm) high, 1.6 inches (4cm) in diameter to the base and weighs approximately 2.5 ounces (78.39g) by our scales. The ewer is in a very good condition, other than some rubbing to the right hand side of the makers mark on the body of the ewer, a slight flattening to the curvature of the side of the foot (not visible in any of the photographs) and some light surface wear commensurate with age.