Jewellery, Watches, Silver and Objects of Vertu

A Victoria silver cylinder vase, repoussé decorated with a Watteau-esque scene of a lutanist attending two seated ladies, by Henry Matthews, Birmingham 1899, engraved with retailer’s name ‘Favelle Bros, Sydney’, with blue glass liner, height 8.5cm. £80-£100

Henry Favelle set up business with George Brush, as opticians and jewellers in Sydney in 1840. As the century progressed, the jewellery side of the business increased in importance and by the turn of the 20th century, the firm were well-known and well-respected jewellers, with branches in Brisbane, London and Paris.