A Victorian brass mounted onyx tantalus, Betjemann's, London, late 19th century

Property from an Important English Private Collection

A Victorian brass mounted onyx tantalus, Betjemann's, London, late 19th century

the cut-brass mounts finely engraved with foliage, each long side with a jungle vignette centered by a silvered Indian elephant, with three cut-glass spirit decanters held in a rosewood veneered retained by a locking brass bar, inscribed to one side 'THE / TANTALUS' and the other 'BETJEMANN'S PATENT / LONDON / 11926', locked

30cm. high, 37cm. wide; 1ft., 1ft. 2 ½in.