The Guild of Handicraft Platters and Serveware

This antique well made silver plated asparagus service or meat server originated from England and made for the renowned Canadian Birks department store chain and dates to approximately 1900 and done in a Victorian style. The set is composed of a handled drip tray with a silver plated stand or rack that sits on bun feet with two sauce servers or boats that fit into the rack. The tray and the two sauce servers are decorated with a stylized rope motif and the tray and both sauce boats are signed "Birks Regency Plate".

Made circa 1910, this very handsome set of 12, Antique Silver Plate Serving Dishes, are plain in style, oval in shape, and feature reed bo...

Antique English Sheffield silver-plate rectangular serving tray.

Antique English silver-plated "shell" cheese dish.

This antique silver plated covered server was made by the well known Barker Ellis Silver Company of England in approximately 1912 and done in a Victorian style. This entree server...

This large antique styled silver plated serving tray is hallmarked by an unknown maker, and presumed to have been made in England in approx...

Antique Sheffield silver-plate (silver on copper) meat dome and tray, Circa 1840-1850.

Amazing mid-century silver plate serving plate. Gio Ponti designed and signed this astonishing item for Cleto Munari in Italy during the 1980s. The flat and efficient design on two round levels, make this piece simply irresistible and iconic for midcentury lovers. This piece will smarten a midcentury living room or minimal and chromed bar. This wonderful piece is in very good condition. 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...

Huge 19th century Dome Meat Cover A magnificent and grand Silver Plate meat or food dome, very large and heavy A magnificent and grand Old Sheffield Plate meat or food dome by A B...

About as grand as they get, this is a rare early Victorian silver plated Entree / Chafing dish in silver plate by the top-notch silversmith, Elkington Mas...

Silver plated tray with handles - Made in IItaly Fully embossed and handmade Ganci Argenterie - Hallmark 110MI - one of the oldest Italian Silversmith.    

Lamb and venison meat dish is masterfully crafted of fine Old Sheffield silver plate. This dish is crafted with the utmost intricacy in a manner one would expect from a sterling coun...