Jewellery, Watches, Silver & Objects of Vertu

A silver bookmark of the Trusty Servant of Winchester College, the finial modelled as a figure with pig’s head, donkey ears, padlocked jaw and deer’s feet, with sword and collection of household implements, referring to the ‘desirable attributed of a servant’, by F. J. Ross, Chester 1911, length 9.1cm. £60-£80

After the painting of the Trusty Servant, hanging on the wall beside the kitchen at Winchester College, first painted in 1579 by John Hoskins, the current painting by Wiliam Cave, 1809.