Circular, clear, colorless pressed glass bowl with a silver, low-domed, flared cover and matching ladle-like spoon, both decorated with strawberry vines and flowers in translucent polychrome enamels. Cover has a circular strawberry flower handle or knop and a utensil cut out for the spoon, which has a raised circular bowl and teardrop-shaped, pierced handle containing a ripe and unripe strawberry. Both pieces are struck incuse "M.P.W." and "STERLING". Bowl has a plain rim, fluted sides, and radiating star on the underside of its flat bottom; its smooth interior has a raised sans serif "H" inside a diamond or lozenge at center of well.
Maker is Mary Peyton Winlock (1867-died after 1930) of Boston (Cambridge), MA; active, 1888-1927 (Master Crafstman, Society of Arts and Crafts). Glass manufacturer not known.
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