A rare Aesthetic movement sterling silver parcel gilt chalice, 1878 Birmingham, with maker's mark F.E for Elkington & Co, the gilt washed chalice superbly engraved and gilt decorated with Japanese fans, birds, insects and a spider in a web, with brocade and diaper patterns and borders, weeping bamboo and other flora, gilt washed to the interior; crisply hallmarked to the rim and partly underside, silver weight 309gr, height 24.5 cm