Walker & Hall Sheffield Silver Plated Regency Fruit Shell Compote Platter Stand

Vintage Towle Victorian Silver Plated 2 Tier Scalloped Pastry Serving Display Platter. Circa Mid 20th Century. Measurements: 10" H x 10.5" W x 10....

Vintage Eales Modern Scalloped Rim Silver Plated Round Fruit Bowl Platter. Circa Late 20th Century. Measurements: 2" H x 13" Diameter.

Vintage Victorian Silver Plated Oval Pedestal Centerpiece Fruit Bowl By Lunt. Circa Mid 20th Century. Measurements: 5" H x 15.25" W x 9.5" D.

Vintage Regency Style Silver Plated Scalloped Oval Serving Platter Fruit Bowl. Circa mid to late 20th Century. Measurements: 2" H x 15" W x 11.25" D.

English silver small basket by Martin, Hall & Co. Sheffield, 1910 An oval elegant small silver basket with openwork body of floral motif and roc...

A fine Victorian style sterling silver compote, Reed and Barton, Francis 1, swirled around the upper portion with a floral garland border Measures: Height...

Intaglio cut glass centre bowl with sterling silver pedestal base signed by Hawkes. Thomas Gibbons Hawkes founded what was probably this country’s most successful factory devoted ex...

Salva cordobesa in silver, 1759-1768. With brands. Córdoba, Spain. Weight: 820 g. Salva in silver Rococo style, with punches of Cordoba and the score Bartolomé Gálvez y Aranda. It has a high, stepped foot, with a circular base, adorned with incised streaks and other simple motifs of a Classic type, announcing the change of language towards Neoclassicism. However, the dish itself is still distinctly Rococo, with a profile of curved mitering that translates into edges in the eaves. Bartolomé Gálvez y Aranda was a silversmith, although he worked as a marker between 1759 and 1772, using for this work the punch that we see here: his surname in capital letters, in very trapezoidal frame and surmounted by a fleur-de-lys in three-lobed projection. To this punch Gálvez y Aranda will add since 1768 the chronological mark, so this salvo would be dated between 1759 and 1768. It is also an especially interesting piece to come from Cordoba, the main center of Spanish silverware of the Rococo period, from whose workshops came religious and profane pieces of high quality, aimed at customers not only local but throughout the Iberian Peninsula, reaching even the Canary Islands and Latin America. The great diffusion of the Cordovan silversmith will take place, in fact, in the last quarter of the 18th century, through the so-called master silversmiths. These characters acted as trade corridors, according to Pérez Grande, visiting the churches and fairs held throughout the country. The activity of these silversmiths was also favored by tax exemptions...