Commissioned to commemorate the Golden Wedding of Charles and Susan Trask in 1904, gifted to them by their children, who on the bowl are represented by nine sets of applied initials and gold roundels corresponding to their zodiac signs.
The circular bowl is finely embellished with fine wire-work, bands with applied lozenge and gold beads, raised on three pairs of elongated tapering supports, the underside of the bowl with a spiralling fluted design, the bowl is centred with a removable seated female figure of Fate, who is spinning out her thread with fine wire forming the initials of their first born son Charles Joseph who died in infancy. A small golden butterfly above the initials symbolises the resurrected human soul. The figure is above five curved supports with open-work naturalistic applications, on a circular base, the whole on a carved ebonised wood plinth