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Material: Sterling Silver
Antique American Edwardian Classical Sterling Silver Loving Cup Trophy
Located in New York, NY
American Edwardian Classical sterling silver loving cup, ca 1910. Tapering bowl with flared rim and curved bottom on reeded domed foot; three leaf-wrapped and scroll-mounted handles....
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Early 20th Century American Edwardian Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pill Box monochrome hand-painted miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired asu guillochè enamel also on all sides and monochrome hand-painted miniature on the lid. Dimensions c...
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1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
XXI° Century Italian Modern Sterling Silver Vase
Located in VALENZA, IT
Modern 925 sterling silver vase.
The pot-bellied body has been embossed, chiselled and engraved with modern motifs, interspersed with fine knurling carried out to highlight the handw...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Baroque Vase
Located in VALENZA, IT
Large baroque style sterling silver vase.
The body of the vase has been masterfully embossed with shells, flowers and volutes, typical of the Baroque style.
Still in the body of the ...
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1990s Italian Baroque Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Baroque Vase
Located in VALENZA, IT
Large baroque style sterling silver vase.
The body of the vase has been masterfully embossed with shells, flowers and volutes, typical of the Baroque style.
Still in the body of the ...
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1990s Italian Baroque Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique American Victorian Classical Sterling Silver Loving Cup Trophy
Located in New York, NY
Victorian Classical sterling silver loving cup, ca 1890. Baluster bowl with flared rim and raised foot. High-looping capped double-scroll handles. Exuberant embossed and cast ornamen...
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Late 19th Century American Victorian Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
21st Century Sterling Silver Baroque "Cartagloria" Picture Frame
Located in VALENZA, IT
Sterling silver frame in Baroque style called Cartagloria.
The frame is shaped and decorated with scrolls typical of the Baroque period.
In the upper part, in the center, there ...
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2010s Italian Baroque Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique English Three Finger Cigar Case - Birmingham 1919
Located in Bath, GB
A handsome English solid sterling silver cigar case, beautifully engraved with a vacant shield-shaped cartouche to the front.
The hinge and clasp to the front are in perfect working...
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1910s British Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pair of Traditional Old Country Friday Night Shabbos Candlesticks
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Old Country sterling silver candlesticks. Made by Elgin Silversmith Co., Inc. in New York, ca 1950. Each: Bellied socket on baluster shaft; domed foot with three embossed scr...
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Mid-20th Century American Biedermeier Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Italian Sterling Silver Embossed Vase
Located in VALENZA, IT
Large and impressive embossed sterling silver vase.
The body of the vase is pot-bellied while the upper part ends with a very large mouth which allows the placement of a large bouque...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Sterling Silver & Glass Claret Jug Topazio Portugal
Located in Marbella, ES
This is a fine early 20th century silver mounted Claret jug / pitcher. Made in Portugal hand crafted using 925 sterling silver by Topazio. The silver mount is decorated with a Cherub mask...
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Early 20th Century Portuguese Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Christian Dior Paris Sterling Silver Picture Frame
Located in Atlanta, GA
This lovely Christian Dior Paris sterling silver picture photo frame features a square shape with a geometric raised dots pattern. The back and easel are made in high gloss tropical ...
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1980s French Modern Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal, Sterling Silver
Tiffany Sterling Silver Memo Sheet Holder From The American Embassy In Austria
Located in Vienna, AT
Elegant vintage Tiffany's sheet holder. In sterling silver and made for the US Embassy in Vienna, Austria. See photos for watermarks.
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20th Century Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Small Georg Jensen Sterling Silver Bernadotte Dish 825
Located in Hellerup, DK
A small sterling silver footed dish, design #825 by Sigvard Bernadotte from circa 1937. The dish itself is undecorated, the outside of the foot is decorated with a chased geometric p...
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20th Century Art Deco Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pill box light green hand-painted floral miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round domed pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent enamel fired on guilloche above and below, and hand-painted floral miniature. Viennese Art Nouveau style...
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1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Edwardian Period Victorian Style Sterling Silver Picture Frame
Located in New York, NY
Edwardian Period sterling silver picture frame (in the Victorian style), Birmingham, England, year-hallmarked for 1902, Charles Henry Freeman - maker. Sterling silver is pierced and ...
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Early 1900s English Victorian Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Victorian Sterling Silver Two Light Candelabrum
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver two light candelabrum centrepiece; an addition to our ornamental Victorian silverware collection.
This exceptional antique Victorian English cast sterling silver candelabrum has a circular waisted form.
This antique 19th century table...
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1840s English Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box Octagonal Black Enamel with light Blue Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco design. Dimensions diameter cm. 15.8 high cm . 8.2. Weight gr. 974. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by objects designed by Louis Cartier around 1920 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens, also in parure with other objects and in different colors, in the headquarters by the Salimbeni firm with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 750°<800° C.
About cooperation Salimbeni and Cartier.
Our first meetings with the Cartier USA Company took place through the Giorgini Company, the first "Buying Office" set up in Florence immediately after the Second World War, which had the purpose of bringing together Florentine, and also Italian, producers with American buyers, who especially appreciated the artistic objects still manufactured by artisans who still took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, using techniques handed down from generation to generation.
Mrs. Gina Pestelli, wife of a Florentine retail jeweller, was in charge of contacts with Cartier USA, above all an employee, while her daughter, also for Giorgini, took care of the fashion that in those years was affirmed in Florence with the events of "Pitti ".
With their help, we began to supply frames and boxes in sterling silver gold plated with malachite and other semi-precious stones.
At the same time, the official buyer of Cartier, Mr. William Smith, began to appreciate and commission the first objects with fired enamels, a process of which we have always been specialists.
In 1975 we began exhibiting at the prestigious New York Jewellery Association Show, which we participated in both the February and July editions, for a good 26 years until 2001.
In New York in those years the "Art deco style" was still very much appreciated, still mindful of the beautiful early 20th century architecture of the great buildings such as the "Crysler" or the "Empire State".
We then began to produce frames, boxes, evening bags, "objets de vertu" and other objects in "art deco style" which were very popular with Mr. Smith who gave us some photocopies of Louis Francois Cartier drawings to reproduce them. Thus, numerous cigarette cases, powder compacts, evening bags, frames and table boxes were created exclusively for Cartier USA which, at the time, had the prestigious "Silver Department" on the first floor of the Cartier store on Fifth Avenue.
An evening bag, with matching cigarette case and powder compact, were redone on the design created for a gift given to Mary Pickford at the time. In a 1986 Cartier...
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1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Art Nouveau sterling silver candelabras, 1900-1920
Located in Delft, NL
Art Nouveau sterling silver candelabras, 1900-1920
A pair of candelabras in sterling silver in Art Nouveau style. This model was designed by Albert Mayer, Sculptor and Designer. The design of Albert Mayer is the "Eiffel" in Germany and Albert Mayer was employed and director at WMF (1884-1914). These candelabras, designed by Albert, were made of base material such as silver plated, brass, or pewter. These you see are candelabras are sterling silver, which are not made in Germany, but in America.
Joseph and his brothers, Albert and Marcus Mayer, emigrated from Germany and established a business in Seattle, Washington, in about 1895.
Joseph Mayer...
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Early 20th Century American Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Silver925 and Murano box " PIZZATO" by Roberto Giulio
Located in Milano, Lombardia
925 silver box "PEZZATO yellow blue and green" by Roberto Giulio Rida
The 925 sterling silver box was handcrafted by an experienced silversmith at the request of Roberto Giulio Rid...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
French Crystal and Sterling Silver Guilloche Enamel Vanity Bottles, Pair/Set
Located in New York, NY
A pair/set of two (2) French crystal, sterling silver, and light blue guilloche enamel topped vanity bottles, circa late-19th century to early-20th century, France. Bottle tops are a...
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Early 20th Century French Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Photo Frame Dated 1894 33x26cm
Located in London, GB
A superb Victorian sterling silver photograph frame by William Comyns, wuth hallmarks for London 1894.
A beautiful portrait frame decorated with a decorative heart shaped aperture...
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1890s Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Salt Cellar Lion Head and Paw Feet
Located in New York, NY
A sterling silver salt cellar with Lion head and paw feet detail, in the Empire style, circa early-20th century. Piece is a salt or pepper cellar vessel. A great piece for a dining t...
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Early 20th Century English Empire Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Wedding Favor Box Art Noveau hand painted on lid Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round wedding favor with lid in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine manual engraving of flower shoots, fire-enamelled with various colours, in early 1900s Art Nouveau styl...
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1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Crystal, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver
Victorian Solid Silver Set of Four Candelabras, Macrae, circa 1872-1873
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique 19th century Victorian exceptional & very unusual set of four solid silver candelabras. Each large seven-light and smaller four-light candelabra set with repousse neoclassica...
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19th Century English Victorian Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Perfume holder pendant blue enamel cruet shape Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Perfume Holder Pendant in the shape of a cruet in 925/1000 sterling silver gold-plated with screwed cap and translucent enamel fired on guilloche. Art Nouveau style from the early 19...
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1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Tiffany & Co. 1920 Art Deco 8 Days Desk Clock Sterling Silver & Enamel with Box
By Concord, Tiffany & Co.
Located in Miami, FL
A desk clock designed by Tiffany & Co.
A beautiful and elegant easel back desk clock, created in New York city by the Tiffany & Co. studios, during the art deco period back in the early 1920. This rare piece has been designed in a squared curvilinear shape and carefully crafted up in solid sterling silver .935/.999 . The watch is gilded and is fully embellished with applications of purple-violet and white enamels over a geometric guilloche patterns. It is fitted at the reverse, with an easel back retractable hinged stand.
Movement: Is Swiss mechanical wingding, 8 days. The dial is creme-white with arabic golden numerals and with black hands and inscribed, Tiffany & Co. Swiss.
Weight: 180.95 Grams, (1115.99 Dwt).
Measurements: 80 mm by 80 mm by 16.5 mm (3.15 x 3.15 x 0.65 Inches).
Clocks Hallmarks: Stamped with the maker's mark and signed, "TIFFANY & CO. 8 DAYS SWISS".
Case Hallmarks: Stamped with the maker's mark monogram, the Swiss mark of the standing Bear for the silver assay, and signed, "CONCORD WATCH CO. STERLING SILVER ARGENT 0.935 CONCORD W. CO SWISS 1608".
Concord Watch Co, was founded in Biel, Switzerland in 1908. From the start, the company had its sights set on the American market. Concord produced luxury watches for several jewelry companies, including Tiffany & Co. and Cartier. During peace talks in the Second World War, President Harry Truman gave Concord watches as a gifts to Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. The North American Watch Company...
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1920s North American Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Unusual Pair of Edwardian Period Neoclassical Style Sterling Silver Candlesticks
Located in New York, NY
Unusual short pair of Edwardian Period, Neoclassical-style sterling silver candlesticks, Sheffield, England, year-hallmarked for 1904, Thomas Bradbury and Sons...
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Early 1900s English Neoclassical Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Cartier Modern Sterling Silver Landscape Picture Frame with Regal Gold Crown
By Cartier
Located in New York, NY
American Midcentury Modern sterling silver picture frame. Retailed by Cartier in New York. Rectangular window in same surround with convex front and flat sides. In hard-to-find lands...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Candelabras A Pair of Elegant Sterling Silver Candle Holders Hallmarked
Located in Hampshire, GB
A pair of elegant and pure sterling silver 925 large antique hallmarked three light candelabra in the late 19th century taste.
These fine candelabra have shaped oval bases and fluted...
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1910s British Hollywood Regency Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sheet Metal, Sterling Silver, Silver, Metal
Vintage Georg Jensen Art Deco Box 857
Located in Hellerup, DK
A Georg Jensen sterling silver Art Deco box, design #857 by Jorgen Jensen from the 1930s.
Additional information:
Material: Sterling silver
Styles: Art Deco
Hallmarks: Vintage Georg...
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20th Century Art Deco Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Francis I by Reed & Barton Sterling Silver Compote
Located in New York, NY
Originally Babbit & Crossman, Reed & Barton was founded in 1824 in Taunton, Massachusetts by Isaac Babbitt and William W. Crossman. The company initially produced works in Britannia ...
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20th Century American Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Edwardian Shagreen & Silver Games Box
Located in Northampton, GB
With Bridge Game Contents
From our Boxes collection, we are delighted to offer this Green Stained Shareen Bridge Games Box. The box of rectangular shape seated upon a plinth base w...
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Ronson Art Metal Works 1920 Very Rare Art Deco Sterling Silver Plate Desk Box
Located in Miami, FL
Art deco desk box designed by Ronson.
An exceptional and very rare desk box, created in New Jersey United States by The Ronson Art Metal Works Co. during the art deco period, back i...
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1920s American Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver, Bronze
Louis Kuppenheim 1900 Germany Neo Classic Vesta Oval Box In .900 Silver Pill Box
Located in Miami, FL
Neo classic vesta box by Louis Kuppenheim.
A beautiful vesta box, created in Germany in the turn of the 20th century, back in the 1900. This superb pocket oval box was carefully crafted with neo classical patterns in solid .900/.999 silver. Show exceptional workmanship with remarkably details as you expect from the iconic jewelry workshop of Louis Kuppenheim. It is fitted with a hinge and a tension element for fastening opening and closing. Actually this box can be easily used as a pill box.
Weight: 24.3 Grams, (15.58 Dwt).
Measurements: 46 mm by 25 mm by 17 mm (1.81 x 0.98 x 0.67 Inches).
Hallmarks: Stamped with German pre 1922 marks, the maker's mark LK inside an oval cartouche associated to the workshop of Louis Kuppenheim, the mark for the silver assay 900 and signed in the border rim, "LK .900".
Louis Kuppenheim
The company was grounded in 1854 by Louis Kuppenheim (1824-1889) and Heinrich Witzenmann, specialized in silver and gold and -enameled artefacts. On the World Exhibition in 1900 the firm received a gold medal for a letter opener. In that same year the company opened a branch in the Rue Richelieu 67 in Paris. In these years some designs by Hans Christiansen were executed, amongst them very delicately enameled silver cigarette cases. The enamels on the several silver and gold pieces was of very high standard, and sometimes even gems like rubies were applied. Very famous were the ladies silver vanity cases with cute animals like cats and monkeys...
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Early 20th Century German Neoclassical Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Coromandel Jewellery Box with Perfume Bottles
Located in Northampton, GB
Rare Small Sized Jewellery Box
From our Jewellery Box collection, we are delighted to offer this Rare example small sized Jewellery Box. The Jewellery Box of square shape constructe...
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Early 20th Century English Edwardian Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Decorative Biscuits Box
By Mario Poli
Located in VALENZA, IT
Extravagant and very particular sterling silver biscuit jar depicting a lady reminiscent of the style of "Botero" paintings.
The lower part is bell-shaped with the "lady's" dress eng...
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Late 20th Century Italian Other Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Rare Pair of Art Deco Sterling Silver and Blue Guilloche Enamel Candlesticks
Located in New York, NY
Rare pair of Art Deco, sterling silver and blue guilloche enamel candlesticks, Birmingham, England, year-hallmarked for 1927, A.L. Davenport - maker. The center of each four-sided co...
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1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Tiffany & Co. Sterling Silver Picture Frame from Italy
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful and well-made sterling silver picture frame from American luxury house, Tiffany & Co., circa late-20th century, Italy. Frame was made in Italy as marked on front as shown...
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Late 20th Century Italian Modern Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Kern, Candelabra, Sterling Silver, Germany, 1950s
Located in High Point, NC
A sterling silver candelabra designed and produced by Kern, Germany, 1950s.
Fits 0.80”-0.85” diameter candles
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1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Vintage English Walking Stick Cane Wooden Gold Plated Cow Horn Handle
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Very Stylish Fine Quality Polished Ebony Wooden Lady’s or Gentleman’s Walking Cane of substantial quality and good weight very suitable to use as an everyday stick, with an elegant decoratively carved classical Cow Horn L shaped handle above a finely repousse chased gold plated silver collar with a vacant cartouche and a wonderful wide mount with matching chased decoration. Last quarter of the Nineteenth Century, of English origin
Condition: Good condition with nice patination, few small character dents to gilt mounts, complete with its original firm fitting solid steel and polished brass ferrule. Nice straight stick in wonderful condition.
Length: 35.5" (89cm) Width of handle: 4.25" (11cms).
Location: Dublin City, Ireland.
Affordable fixed price Worldwide Store to door Shipping offered by Seller.
*TIP: When deciding to purchase a Walking Stick on-line, always check the dimensions especially its length. Many antique sticks...
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Late 19th Century British Victorian Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Large Planished Sterling Silver Picture Frame - 1911
Located in Bath, GB
A grand large photograph frame made from solid / sterling English silver with an all-over planished decoration, perfect for any interior scheme, from traditional to ultra modern.
Th...
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1910s British Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Cartier Jewelry Dish or a Personal Cards / Keys / Trinket Tray / Coins Plate
By Cartier
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
Rare to see Cartier small tray. Very chic
Cartier Jewelry Dish or a Personal Cards / Keys / Trinket Tray / Coins Plate
This piece is a handsome Tray. Can be use as a jewelry dish or a personal desk...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Gorham Edwardian Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Vase, 1904
Located in New York, NY
Edwardian sterling silver vase. Made by Gorham in Providence in 1904. Steeply tapering ovoid body; domed foot. Rims scrolled with applied flowers; mouth rim wavy. Fully marked includ...
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Early 1900s American Edwardian Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Art Deco Period Candlesticks Holders, Pair
Located in New York, NY
A pair of sterling silver candlestick holders, Art Deco period, circa early-20th century, New York, USA. Pair are strong and well made. Marked 'Sterling' on bottom of both as shown i...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Rare Harry Bertoia Sterling Silver Brooch "Ginko Leaves" ca. 1940s
Located in Bloomfield Hills, MI
An extremely rare Harry Bertoia sterling silver brooch "Ginko Leaves." The brooch has been added to the Harry Bertoia Catalogue Raisonné and assigned the following catalogue raisonné number: D.JE.77. This piece comes from a private collection. Provenance will accompany the piece. The Brooch measures: 2.94 " long x 1.5 " wide x .30 " deep.
Although associated with Mid-Century Modern furniture, Harry Bertoia was originally a jewelry designer who used both sterling silver, precious stones and gem stones. The brooch and closure are all handcrafted and the clasp is his unique design.
The following is from Beverly H. Twitchell, PhD, author of Bertoia: The Metalworker, London: Phaidon, 2019. She provides a very informative critique of Bertoia and his jewelry.
Wearable Art an Important Design for a Necklace
“Before Harry Bertoia enrolled at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1937 he had already mastered traditional jewelers’ techniques, but his engagement with Modernism led him to invent and use more direct methods. Instead of precious metals and gems, Bertoia made jewelry that appealed through its design, craftsmanship and the nature of its materials. That approach would make Bertoia a direct predecessor of the American Studio Crafts movement.
So complex and cumulative are human perception and memory that we often do not know from where our own ideas come and without firm evidence, it is impossible to think we can establish the origins of an artist’s ideas. While his jewelry is entirely modern, chokers with multiple small pendants had come from ancient Mediterranean cultures: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Italy, even from Europe and America at the turn of the last century. Did Bertoia see works in books, journals or at the Detroit Institute of Arts that resonated with him or did he invent this on his own, as he would so many other forms?
Bertoia found inspiration in nature from an early age on a small farm in Italy and later in Cranbrook’s woods, on the beaches of southern California and in the fields near his home in eastern Pennsylvania where he lived after 1950. The fluidity and motion of the his jewelry characterize much of his art. In that spirit, too, he made jewelry that suited human anatomy and was animated by its wearer’s movement. Bertoia had the instincts of an engineer, as the intricacy of the present lot’s clasp and overall construction of the jewelry demonstrates. Large jewelry by Bertoia is very rare. A delight to the eye, and like all of Bertoia’s work it is timeless.”
Harry Bertoia (1915 – 1978) was an Italian-born American artist, jewelry creator and modern furniture designer. He was born in San Lorenzo d-Arzene, Pordenone, Italy. At age 15 he moved to Detroit, Michigan to live with his older brother, Oreste. He quickly learned English and the bus schedule and enrolled in Cass Tech High School in Detroit (1930-1936) where he studied art and design and learned the skill of handmade jewelry making. At that time, there were three jewelry and metals teachers Louise...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Tiffany Sterling Silver Two-Handled Vase, 1902-1907
Located in New York, NY
Of amphora form, the double swan handles terminating on the shoulder with masks of "comedy' and "tragedy", the mouth, shoulder and foot with embossed stiff leaf decoration.With conte...
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Early 1900s Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Cartier Sterling and Enamel Art Deco Desk Clock with Breguet Engine Turned Dial
By Cartier
Located in Long Beach, CA
FACTORY / HOUSE: Cartier
STYLE / REFERENCE: Art Deco / Desk Clock
METAL / MATERIAL: Sterling Silver / Kiln Fired Enamel
CIRCA / YEAR: 1920's
DIMENSIONS / SIZE: 5 inches Length X 5 inches Width
MOVEMENT / CALIBER: Manual Winding / 15 Jewels
DIAL / HANDS: Original Silvered with Luminous Roman Numerals / Blued Steel Luminous Hands
STAND: Easel
WARRANTY: 18 months on the movement
LIFETIME SERVICE COMMITMENT
This is a classic Desk Clock...
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1920s Swiss Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
GAB, Candlesticks, Sterling Silver, Sweden, 1930s
Located in High Point, NC
A pair of sterling silver candlesticks designed and produced by GAB Guldsmedsaktiebolaget, Sweden, 1930s.
fits 0.80” diameter candles
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1930s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Extremely RareHarry Bertoia Necklace Sterling Silver Lapis Coral ca. 1940
Located in Bloomfield Hills, MI
Extremely rare combination pendant attached to custom-made chain by Harry Bertoia in sterling silver, containing one Lapis Lazuli and one Coral. This piece comes from a private collection. Provenance will accompany the piece. The work has been added to the Harry Bertoia Catalogue Raisonné and assigned the following catalogue raisonné number: D.JE.78.
Although associated with Mid-Century Modern furniture, Harry Bertoia was originally a jewelry designer who used both sterling silver, precious stones and gem stones. The pendant measures: 1.25" long x 1" wide. The necklace measures: 11" length with a measurement of 22" overall length. The chain and closure are all handcrafted and in his unique design. Lapis Lazuli measures 20mm round supported by one 6 mm red coral. Total weight is
33 grams.
The following is from Beverly H. Twitchell, PhD, author of Bertoia: The Metalworker, London: Phaidon, 2019. She provides a very informative critique of Bertoia and his jewelry.
Wearable Art an Important Design for a Necklace
“Before Harry Bertoia enrolled at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1937 he had already mastered traditional jewelers’ techniques, but his engagement with Modernism led him to invent and use more direct methods. Instead of precious metals and gems, Bertoia made jewelry that appealed through its design, craftsmanship and the nature of its materials. That approach would make Bertoia a direct predecessor of the American Studio Crafts movement.
So complex and cumulative are human perception and memory that we often do not know from where our own ideas come and without firm evidence, it is impossible to think we can establish the origins of an artist’s ideas. While his jewelry is entirely modern, chokers with multiple small pendants had come from ancient Mediterranean cultures: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Italy, even from Europe and America at the turn of the last century. Did Bertoia see works in books, journals or at the Detroit Institute of Arts that resonated with him or did he invent this on his own, as he would so many other forms?
Bertoia found inspiration in nature from an early age on a small farm in Italy and later in Cranbrook’s woods, on the beaches of southern California and in the fields near his home in eastern Pennsylvania where he lived after 1950. The fluidity and motion of the his jewelry characterize much of his art. In that spirit, too, he made jewelry that suited human anatomy and was animated by its wearer’s movement. Bertoia had the instincts of an engineer, as the intricacy of the present lot’s clasp and overall construction of the jewelry demonstrates. Large jewelry by Bertoia is very rare. A delight to the eye, and like all of Bertoia’s work it is timeless.”
Harry Bertoia (1915 – 1978) was an Italian-born American artist, jewelry creator and modern furniture designer. He was born in San Lorenzo d-Arzene, Pordenone, Italy. At age 15 he moved to Detroit, Michigan to live with his older brother, Oreste. He quickly learned English and the bus schedule and enrolled in Cass Tech High School in Detroit (1930-1936) where he studied art and design and learned the skill of handmade jewelry making. At that time, there were three jewelry and metals teachers Louise Green...
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