a bowl made from the teak of hms sesame.
hms sesame was an s - class destroyer of the Royal Navy, launched in 1918 just after the end of World War One. she served a brief but notable period in Latvia before being refitted as a plane guard, a role she performed before decommissioning under the London navy treaty and subsequent sale for scrap in 1934.
The London Naval Treaty was an arms control agreement signed in London in 1930 by the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, France and Italy to limit naval armaments. It was an attempt to continue the naval disarmament efforts of the Washington Naval Conference of 1922 by placing limits on submarines, cruisers, and destroyers. While it set specific limits on naval vessels for the next five years, it was eventually undermined by Japan's growing dissatisfaction and was largely ineffective in the long term, contributing to a naval arms race leading up to World War II.
diameter ... 150mm ... 50mm high.
the bowl was made by lister craft an off shoot of lister engineering, the company made high quality wooden products often from the timber of de commissioned Royal Navy ships up until the end of the 1930's.
