Gustavian Barware

Whatever you fancy...Keep your buns warm or elegantly offer ice on your bar... This attractive 19th century Victorian English Oak lidded biscuit barrel with a white interior ceramic...

Beautiful antique tantalus made by Army and Navy CSL, from England. The stand is made from solid oak, decorated with silver plated mounts and a top m...

Late 19th / early 20th century corkscrew of "T" form having a boar's tusk handle with sterling silver cap (no monogram) and tip.

Rare and therefore sought-after bowl-shaped champagne cooler / bucket, Grande pewter champagne cooler from the 1930s, with engraved champagne brand Louis Roederer on the side. Fant...

English oak with silver plated frame ice bucket / biscuit barrel with white interior ceramic liner. The biscuit box / ice bucket features a removable silver plate cover and holding t...

Not quite a matching pair of imperial measures made of pewter in the shape of one handled mug or tankard. These measures are generally graduating in s...

An English silver and crystal decanter set from the 19th century, with seven glasses, a decanter and silver platter. Born in England during the 19th century, this exquisite set featu...

18th century Austrian-Hungarian pewter tankard hinged lion lid. Fine antique Baroque pewter tankard with twist fluted sides and hinged lid topped with a li...

Baccarat wine decanter, "Côte d’Azur" model, created in 1960. Crafted from high-quality crystal, it features an elegant design with finely cut ...

A spirit ships decanter. England, circa 1820. Measures: Height: 20 cm (7 3/4"). Diameter: 15 cm (6").

Elegant Mid-Century Modern vintage crystal decanter with stopper by Orrefors (Swedish, founded 1898), c. 1960's. Engraved signature to base Orrefors HM 2498 - this particular style was by Edvard Hall. Includes original red Orrefors Sweden sticker with logo. "Orrefors HM 2498" etched into base. Measures 11.5" H x 3" W x 3" D. Orrefors Glassworks was founded in 1898 on the same site where ironworks operations had been run since 1726. In the same year that the glassworks was founded, a hot shop was built for making technical, medical and household glass and stemware to make use of waste wood and labour. Glass now replaced the less profitable ironworks operations. In 1913, Consul Johan Ekman from Gothenburg became the new owner of Orrefors Glassworks. He appointed Albert Ahlin as manager of the glassworks and this marked the start of a new era. In 1914, Orrefors started manufacturing crystal products, and as well as cut crystal according to purchased patterns and samples, Orrefors made art glass using the overlay technique with etched decoration. The new management quickly saw that artists were needed in the business, so Simon Gate was employed in 1916 and was joined by Edward Hald a year later. That same year, Gate and Hald made their first tentative attempts at figure engraving. They also experimented with the new innovative graal (grail) glass technique that was developed at Orrefors by the master glassblower Knut Bergqvist. The major successes were achieved a few years later at the Gothenburg Exhibition in 1923, and in particular at the Paris Exhibition in 1925. The thin engraved glass was admired by the surrounding world, and both Orrefors and the artists themselves were awarded the Grand Prix. The successes of Simon Gate and Edward Hald in Paris in 1925 constituted the start of the long Orrefors tradition of creative design closely combined with genuine and innovative craftsmanship. Since then, new designers and skilled glassmakers have continued in the spirit of Gate and Hald. Vicke Lindstrand and Edvin Öhrström with the new glass technique called Ariel in the 1930s. Sven Palmqvist with Kraka and Ravenna in the 1940s. And in the 1950s with Fuga, which, along with Nils Landberg’s slender tulip-shaped glass “Tulpan” and Ingeborg Lundin’s apple-shaped vase “Äpplet”, are now seen as symbols of the renaissance of Swedish design. The 1960s are associated with Gunnar Cyrén’s Pop glass, and in the 1970s, Eva Englund, Olle Alberius, Lars Hellsten and Jan Johansson as well as Cyrén worked at the glassworks. Since the 1980s, designers such as Anne Nilsson, Erika Lagerbielke, Helen Krantz, Matz Borgström, Per B Sundberg, Martti Rytkönen, Lena Bergström, Ingegerd Råman, Malin Lindahl and Efva Attling...

A pair of Georgian period slice and diamond cut spirit decanters. England, circa 1800.