Samuel Pemberton More Dining and Entertaining

This nutcracker by Carl Auböck III by is a simply elegant design. The wooden sides feel very nice in hand, and the ebony and maple contrast and complem...

Signed set of 6 Georges Briard highball glasses with a silver rim above stylized images of recumbent lions wearing crowns.

This antique hot water urn or server is unsigned, but presumed to have originated from England and date to approximately 1880 and done in a Georg...

English Sheffield tea urn with hand chased floral motif, fluted, and beaded decorative work, acanthus side handles, removable lid, spout, and termina...

Each cistern is in the form of a fluted vase on a rectangular pedestal. The lead-lined vases have brass handles, removable lids with pineapple finials and taps. The crossbanded pedestals have cupboard doors enclosing slatted shelves for warming plates in one and a lead-lined slops drawers, a tambour fronted shelf and a cellaret in the other. Susan Stuart, 'Gillow of Lancaster and London', 2008 vol 1 p308-315 illustrates many pedestal urns including the drawings for Workington Hall, Cumbria, dated 1788. PLates 342 and 343 show pedestals with a similar arrangement of shelves and drawers. Thomas Sheraton explained the functions of dining room pedestals in his 'Drawing Book' of 1793: 'IN spacious dining rooms the sideboards are often made without drawers of any sort, having simply a rail, a little ornament...

A beautiful faux wood silver plated rest for your carving set, circa 1920s, European made. Nice addition to every table or just for your collection. Tarnished and silver plate lost, ...

An exceedingly rare and important pair of George III-period mahogany knife boxes of exceptional quality and condition. The boxes are of serpentine form with refined crossbanded and c...

Eight vintage highball glasses designed by Georges Briard in the Regalia pattern in 22k gold with aqua and blue detail.

Victorian sterling silver nutmeg grater. Made by Gorham in Providence, ca 1900. Ovoid and lobed; cover hinged and tabbed. Interior has hi...

Victorian Classical sterling silver porringer. Made by Gorham in Providence, ca 1930. Round and curved bowl; cast leafing scroll handle with fretwork. Fully marked including maker'...

This is a beautiful small glass Vase made by George Davidson and Co. of Gateshead England in the Art Deco period, Circa 1930s. These vases were made in various colours and this is th...

Sotheby's; A Double Catalogue, A Discerning Eye, a collection of important English furniture from A Knightsbridge Apartment and Property from the Estate of the Late Lady Samuel of Wy...