A pair of silver mounted cut glass wine ewers, Sheffield, c.1995, CJ Vander, one ewer lacking cover to lid, both designed with stylised branch handles, the bulbous glass bodies cut and etched with foliate designs, 25.5cm high (2) Note: The Athenæum...

A pair of silver mounted cut glass wine ewers, Sheffield, c.1995, CJ Vander, one ewer lacking cover to lid, both designed with stylised branch handles, the bulbous glass bodies cut and etched with foliate designs, 25.5cm high (2) Note: The Athenæum is a private Members' Club in London established in 1824 to serve as a place for eminent artists, writers, scientists and other great thinkers to enjoy the companionship of civilised minds. It now includes persons of attainment in any field whose work is intellectual and of substantial value. The distinctive neoclassical Pall Mall Clubhouse was designed by the young architect and Member Decimus Burton. The Club was founded by John Wilson Croker and its first Secretary was the great scientist Michael Faraday. Members over the years have included Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Edwin Landseer, William Holman Hunt, William Wilberforce, John Nash, Sir Alec Guinness, Yehudi Menuhin and numerous Nobel Laureates.