St Hilaire, Paris Silver Plate and Crystal Caviar Bowl Dish Server

The French silversmith AMO designed this stylish modernist Mid-Century silver plate and crystal caviar serving bowl in the 1970s. The streamlined c...

This elegant caviar serving bowl or dish from Riedel's Mesa collection was crafted in Italy during the 1980s. Its sleek modernist design showcases a geometric shape with a stunning stepped crystal container, complemented by a silver plate metal holder and a matching crystal caviar bowl...

This stylish modernist caviar set was designed in the 1980s by Swid Powell and distributed by Calvin Klein Home Collection. The serving set includes ...

This is a romantic set of two decorative bowls, centerpieces, or catchalls designed for the Christian Dior Home Collection. Rounded scalloped shape in Lucite with authentic cobalt bl...

French silversmith Ercuis, Paris, designed this lovely silver plate bottle holder, wine pourer, or server in the 1950s. The piece features a streamlined shape with a minimalist desig...

This exquisite Christian Dior crystal ashtray, or vide poche, is the perfect addition for a touch of luxury to any room. The intricate and heavily carved pattern is stunning, with al...

A very stylish quality French mid-century crystal glass vase mounted in a silver plated frame by renowned Paris makers Saint Hilaire. The clear blown glass vase has a wide trumpet shaped top with a fold back rim with a pinched waisted body and narrow flat polished heavy base. The vase sits within a purpose made quality heavy silver plated frame with a narrow round base and handle formed scroll top applications supporting a wide round top rim on which the top edge fits and rests. The quality is absolutely superb and it has spent its life in a display cabinet. The top rim is impressed ST HILAIRE...

Handcrafted brass bowl, roll top round dome with rich Persian style design. This footed presentation brass dish keeps inside a crystal bowl which makes it the perfect caviar server...

Important bowl for caviar by Gianmaria Buccellati. The body was made in two parts, cup and base. The welded edge with small leaves characterizes the Classic Empire style. A wire circ...

FB Rogers Silver Co 1158 silver plated footed covered dish serving bowl. Item features raised on feet, lidded dish with handle, original stamp, very nice vin...

Lightly tapered candy dish in silver and crystal. The rim is ornamented with an openwork geometric frieze, and the paunch features a sculpted silver balustrade vase and two birds sta...

A magnificent, fine and impressive antique French silver and cut glass serving/caviar dish; an addition to our ornamental silverware collection This magnificent antique French silver and cut glass caviar/serving dish has circular shaped form onto a pedestal and square base. This antique silver dish is fitted with an exceptional cut glass body. The upper and lower portions of the dish are encompassed with impressive French silver mounts embellished with chased lobed stylised leaf decoration. The magnificent dish retains the original cast handles, ornamented with impressive spiralling rosette and leaf designs to the handpieces and sockets. The caviar dish is fitted with an impressive hallmarked push fit domed cover, encompassed to the rim with a simplified leaf decorated border. The cover is surmounted with exceptional cast floral and foliate motif emanating from a cast silver bud style finial; this ornamental motif is detachable, secured in situ via the screw fit finial. This exceptional dish is supported by an impressive cast leaf decorated pedestal to a swept square base. The base is encompassed with further chased leaf decoration, reflecting that of the vessels upper rim. The decoration to the base incorporates two cartouches, one bearing the contemporary engraved initials 'EDCHSV' and the other featuring a coat of arms depicting an escutcheon of three mullets of six points pierced, surmounted with a helm with closed-visor. The serving dish base is supported by four exceptional cast silver paw style feet, accented with leaf and floral rosette designs. The hallmarks to the cover and rim of the base include: Maker's mark: Untraced Silver quality/purity mark: Mercury, 1 (.950, 950/1000, Paris) Guarantee mark: Paris (large guarantee) NOTE: From August 1819 the French silverware hallmarking system was developed to require pieces to be marked with the maker's mark, the mark indicating fineness and a guarantee mark. These continued to be the required range of hallmarks until May 1838, where the head of Minerva mark was utilised opposed to Mercury. This determines the date of the piece as circa 1830. Condition This French silver caviar dish is an exceptional gauge of silver, exceptional quality and in exceptional condition. The cast and chased decoration is very sharp and the engraved ornamentation is very crisp. The French hallmarks struck to the underside of the cover and rim of the base are all very clear. Reflections in photographs may detract from the true representation of this magnificent example of 19th century silverware...