London 1977, 'Bull', commissioned by the Royal Agricultural Society of England, each with plain circular silver foot, silver gilt textured stem featuring a stylised bull, and conical shaped bowl with gilded interior, 15cm in height, numbered '13' and '14' respectively, 11.7ozt gross and presented in the original fitted cases and with the original correspondence from the RAS (2) Provenance: Julians Park, Hertfordshire. Footnote: Australian silversmith, jeweller and designer, Stuart Devlin ranks as one of the great contemporary gold and silversmiths and has been acclaimed by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths' as the designer with ‘the Midas touch’. Devlin was made a freeman of the Goldsmiths’ Company by special grant in 1966 and elected a liveryman in 1972. In 1980 he was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George ‘for services to the art of design’ and in 1982 was granted the Royal Warrant of Appointment as Goldsmith and Jeweller to Queen Elizabeth II. He was Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths' Company 1996 – 1997. In 2011 the Australia Day Foundation honoured Devlin as 'The greatest living goldsmith of his generation'. Later in that year his wife Carole and sister-in-law Victoria Kate Simkin started to assemble his archive. It became the basis for a book which was published in 2018 shortly before he died.