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Lafarge Limoges for Le Cirque porcelain lidded sugar bowl displaying orange/rust trim and green band with imagery of monkeys picking fruit. Marked on verso by Larfarge Limoges for Le...

A Fine Early 20th Century 152 Piece Austrian Dinnerware Flatware Set by Berndorfer Metallwaaren-Fabrik, stamped 'Berndorf Alpacca', The Neoclassical Revival style set of Alpacca flatware comprising of: 12 Fish knives 12 Salad forks 12 Salad knives 12 Pasta spoons 12 Dessert spoons 12 Coffee spoons 12 Tea spoons 12 Ice-cream spoons 1 Ice thong 1 Soup ladle 1 Serving spoon 1 Salad spoon 1 Sauce/Gravy ladle 1 Meat carving knife 1 Meat carving fork 1 Salad fork All inside its original lined wooden storage-traveling cabinet. (See all images). Circa: Vienna, 1900-1930. The Alpacca alloy was developed in 1823 by the German chemist Dr. Ernst August Geitner (1783-1852). It was very similar in its appearance to silver, therefore, this new alloy was first called "Argentan". It consisted of 20% nickel, 55% copper and 25% zinc. The new silver-imitating alloy soon became very popular. The Gebrueder Henninger (Henninger Bros.) proposed a similar alloy (5-30% nickel, 45-70% copper and 8-45% zinc with trace amounts of lead, tin and iron) which they called "Neusilber". Later both Argentan and Neusilber were used under the trade name of Alpacca (or Alpakka). The great advantage of the use of Alpacca alloy as the base metal for silver plating is that the appearance of the objects does not change significantly with the wearing away of the silver layer and, unlike sterling silver, it does not require frequent polishing or cleaning due to tarnishing. The earliest known Berndorf Alpacca mark (No.1) was introduced around 1880 and used until 1891. I found it on the bottom of a 30 cl teapot bearing the inscription KRIEAU, which corresponds to the "Wiener Krieau", the famous race course in Vienna. The mark No.1 represents an oval of 3.0 x 3.6 mm size bearing the lettering "BMF ALPACCA" (which means Berndorfer Metallwaaren Fabrik or Berndorf Metalware Factory) with the "M" and "F" letters being fused. Inside the oval there is a profile of a walking bear looking down. This mark is quite rare. BIBLIOGRAPHY - Ingrid Haslinger, Tafelkultur Marke Berndorf, Das Niederoesterreichische Erfolgsunternehmen Arthur Krupps (Ketterl Verlag, Wien, 1998), pp.1-174, (in German). - Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk and Claudia Kanowski, Modern Art of Metallwork (Berlin: Broehan Museum, 2001), 1-598. - Musterbuch ueber Tafelgeraete in Alpacca-Silber I, Alpacca-Silber II und Alpacca, Unversilbert (Berndorfer Haus, Berlin, 1928), pp.1-53, (in German). - Waltraud Neuwirth, Bluehender Jugendstil Oesterreich, Band 2: Firmen und Marken [Art Nouveau in Blossom - Austria, Vol. 2: Companies and Marks]. Vienna: Selbstverlag Dr. Waltraud Neuwirth, 1991, 1-288 (in German). - David N. Nikogosyan, 2008, Marks of Silverplated Hollowware...

A bowl from the Qing dynasty of China (around the 19th century). It is a simple red and green painting. I feel very kind and cute. Also, when you remove the lid, you can see the g...

Stunning porcelain creamer and lidded sugar bowl by Wood & Sons Woods Ware in the Wincanton Blue and Rust pattern, in about 1885s with Mark stamps on the bo...

18th Century Sugar Bowl Scotland Silver This is an exquisite sugar bowl from 18th century Scotland. This elegant bowl rests on three curved feet and has a decorative lobed rim. A fi...

Meissen coffee pot, sugar bowl and cream jug with hand-painted flowers and gold decoration. Lids modelled with rosebuds. Early 20th century. The co...

Meissen pink rose bowl in hand-painted porcelain with gold edge. Early 20th century. Measures: 19 x 4 cm. In excellent condition. Stamped. 3rd Fa...

Very nice and original silver plate sugar bowl. The top is removable to put the sugar in. Good quality and condition.

Antique Meissen "Blue onion" bowl in hand painted porcelain, early 20th century. Measures: 11 x 3.5 cm. Stamped. 2nd factory quality. The Meissen "onion" pattern was originally named the "bulb" pattern. While modeled closely after a pattern first produced by Chinese porcelain painters, which featured pomegranates unfamiliar in Saxony, the plates and bowls produced in the Meissen factory in 1740 adopted a feel that was distinctly their own. More than 200 pieces on stock, complete lunch & dinner service for 24...

Early 20th century set of French copper lidded pots 5 lidded copper pots, French early 20th century with copper handles and knob with twist patter...

Antique Meissen blue onion sauce bowl in hand-painted porcelain. Late 19th century. Measures: 22 x 14 x 8.5 cm. In excellent condition. Stamped. 3rd factory quality.

Our artisan's pieces are a dream come true, as in Cinderella's fairytail. This ceramic piece is completely hand-crafted and painted with love and care. A set is consisting of a mi...