Bidspirit auction | A Collection of Items comprising

A Collection of Items comprising a Gozo Art Glass Bowl, a Mauchline Ware Souvenir Box, and a Chinese Pocket Compass - A collection of decorative and functional objects. The group includes a circular hand-blown art glass bowl bearing a maker's label for Gozo Glass, Malta. The piece is designed with a deep cobalt blue interior and an iridescent, mottled exterior featuring swirled patterns of turquoise, green, and gold. Also included is a 19th-century Mauchline Ware souvenir box, crafted from sycamore with a polished finish. The lid displays a transfer-printed vignette of the Burns Monument, while the front features two circular scenes, one of which depicts Burns' Cottage in Alloway. The box is fitted with a hinged lid and a metal keyhole escutcheon. Completing the collection is a Chinese geomantic or pocket compass (Luo Pan). The circular body is made of likely carved bone or ivory, engraved with concentric rings of Chinese characters and the eight trigrams, centred with a glazed magnetic compass. It features an intricate, pierced dark metal cover decorated with a bird amongst floral motifs. Box: 18.5 cm x 11.5 cm x 8 cm Bowl: 16 cm diameter Compass: 6 cm diameter.