Argental Decorative Dishes and Vide-Poche

Exceptional quality large Arts & Crafts Sheffield silver plated Celtic revival large twin handled Quaiche bowl by Martin Hall & Co and dating from aroun...

Marble and bronze Art Deco tazza. The cast bronze dish support features four alternating panels with a highly detailed flower surrounded by leaves that both overlap and recess around...

Art Deco Revival lacquer and eggshell low tazza/centerpiece. Adapting its style from Jean Dunand, the Art Deco lacquer master. Excellent condition.  

Metal Grotto style shell dish in a silver hue. Standing on three rounded footed feet, this dish elevates slightly off of where it sits. In a silver metal, this piece is shaped int...

Expertly turned wood art bowl by Bob Stocksdale made of wenge wood from Africa. 10.75" diameter. Purposefully left in as found condition with a bit of fading ...

A mid-20th century silver-plated bowl, the body with hammered decoration, the undulating rim with beaded decoration, all set upon a turned foot.  

This is a James Dixon & Son Sheffield Silver wide basket. The basket is shaped as a large open flower whose petals border forms ruffles. I...

A stunning work of art and a significant historic memorial to a great moment in horse racing history, this silver plated bowl by International Silver was given by The National Trotti...

Vintage white metal swan figurine - hand chased details throughout - cast in three pieces (the wings applied to the body) - open cavity - unsigned - U.S.A. (likely) - mid 20th centur...

Art Deco silver plated metal and crystal bowl, 1930. Art Deco period silver-plated metal and crystal bowl, 1930. H: 13.5cm, W: 41cm, D: 14cm

A handsome and rare pair of silver plated dishes or bowls jointed together with a decorative Horse Bit handle in the centre. Just back from our silversmith's workshop where it has...

Wonderful Mid-Century silver plated serving plate or vide poche designed and signed by Gio Ponti for Cleto Munari, in Italy during the 1980s. The flat and efficient design on two round decentered levels, make this piece simply irresistible and iconic for midcentury lovers. In amazing conditions with no scratches on the top. This piece will smarten a midcentury living room or a minimal bar. Dimensions (cms): Diameter - 32 Giovanni “Gio” Ponti, (Milan, November 18, 1891 - Milan, September 16, 1979), is one of the Italian masters of architecture. He was also a designer and essayist and one of the most important of the twentieth century. Other than the great architectural works which carry his unmistakable signature, he created a vast amount of work in the furniture sector. This is demonstrated in his three Milanese houses which were fully furnished in the "Ponti" style. The houses in via Randaccio, 1925, Casa Laporte in via Brin, 1926 and the last in via Dezza, in 1957 is an "expression" of his home design ideas. Gio Ponti was an Italian promoter of industrial design and introduced the idea of interior furnishing ranges produced as being a "sophisticated," economic, "democratic" and modern. Molteni&C managed a reissuing project of furniture and furnishings designed by Gio Ponti for products for these private homes and limited editions. After a long journey of research, selection and study of prototypes, the collection was exhibited at the Salone del Mobile 2012. This was thanks to the cooperation and the exclusively signed agreement of the Ponti heirs and the artistic director of Cerri & Associati Studio. Gio Ponti graduated in Architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan at the end of World War I, after he fought on the front line earning military decorations. In 1921 he married Giulia Vimercati, with whom he had four children: Lisa, Giovanna, Letizia and Giulio. In 1927 he opened a studio in Milan with the architect Emilio Lancia. From the beginning of the 1920’s until 1938 he worked with Richard-Ginori Manufactory and renewed its production. In 1928 he founded the Domus magazine with Gianni Mazzocchi. In 1933 he became the artistic director of Fontana Arte which was another success after the one he obtained with Richard-Ginori. In the 1930’s he participated in the Triennale exhibitions and later he successfully managed a few of them. From 1936 to 1961 he was a professor at the Milan Polytechnic, and in 1933 was associated with Antonio Fornaroli and Eugenio Soncini, until 1945. From this partnership major projects were born, including the Montecatini Palace in Milan from 1936 to 1938, in which Ponti created the "integral design" of the building and the interiors. Other works of the period were civil architecture, including the Littoria Tower in Milan in 1933, school buildings such as the School of Mathematics at the University City Rome in 1934 and the Humanities Faculty and the Rectorate of the University of Padua in 1937. There were also residential projects such as Casa Marmont in 1934 and Milan "Domus" from 1931 to 1936. The richness of the artistic production of Cleto Munari, arises out of the discovery that every boundary is undefined, and the consequent need to create a “collection about syllables” or rather a “collection of figures” which, because of their incompleteness, luminously suggest the irrepressible quest of man’s intelligence to transfigure the world, according to his own vision. It is this a perfect complicity between the whisper of the “heart...