A RARE SILVER-GILT TRAVELLING PERFUME CONTAINER, first half of the 17th century, probably English, the cylindrical base with two compartments and engraved beneath with initials GB with a heart pierced by arrows between, and initials AVR above, all within wreath, with outer crimped border, the sides engraved with bands of quatrefoils, surmounted by a pierced spherical container rising from openwork foliage and with similar finial--2in. (5cm.) high, in original pierced wood case, without base