Victorian Silver Claret Jug

This is a water ewer used in Tibetan ritual offerings to the "hungry ghosts". They have been reborn so, as a result of greed and avarice and are condemned to wander as spirits with b...

A very fine quality pair of caddy spoons with scallop shell bowls, twisted handles and whelk-shell terminals, by John S Hunt. For a collector of caddy spoons, spoons, or fine silver there can be no greater name nor finer quality. On the death of Paul Storr in 1838, his business (Storr & Mortimer) was continued by his nephew John Samuel Hunt under the name of Mortimer & Hunt. In 1843 the company became Hunt & Roskell until 1897. Paul Storr entered into business with Rundell, Bridge & Rundell in 1807 who were the Royal Goldsmiths...

This is a particularly attractive example. First the "navette" shape is most unusual, more often found in gem settings than trays. The gallery, pierced with scrolling stylised acanth...

This elegant epergne has three matching trumpet-shaped vases around another larger. Each has a frilled rim and a gilt washed interior. The scrolling frame firmly seats each vase in p...

Austrian Secessionist silver sugar or etrog box of lobed oval outline, with waisted body and with domed oval hinged cover, applied with an urn shaped finial,...

This fine American vase although from the 1930s is in the Art Nouveau taste but the Art Deco period. It compares favorably to the work of Georg Jensen. The Lotus form base is natural...

Antique Victorian Sterling silver claret jug/ water pitcher Made in England, London, 1861 Maker: Martin, Hall & Co (Richard Martin & Ebene...

An exceptional, fine and impressive pair of antique Victorian English sterling silver claret jugs made by Elkington & Co; an addition to our Victorian silverware collection These exceptional antique Victorian sterling silver jugs have a tapering ovoid body onto a circular domed foot, in a Classic ewer style. The waisted neck of the each jug is embellished with a bright cut engraved undulating band of stylised leaf decoration flanked by plain applied ornamentations in addition to a broad band of scroll and simplified Akroter designs. Each jug is ornamented with individual fine and impressive female Grecian style figures, the first bearing a vine terminating staff and holding out a handled bowl, another passive character featuring long braids in her hair and holding her skirt in one hand and a tied bundle of wheat in the other and the third holding in both hands grapes with flowing garments intertwining her body. The lower portion of each body is encircled with a band of lobed decoration incorporating a circular motif to each alternating terminal, all filled with a matte pattern. These antique silver jugs are fitted with hallmarked domed hinged covers surmounted with an impressive scrolling lobed thumbpiece and featuring an imposing scrolling hinge. These Victorian silver jugs are fitted with fine and impressive cast sterling silver ribbed handles embellished with leaf designs enveloping four scrolling branches. The domed foot of each solid silver jug...

An exceptional, fine and impressive vintage Elizabeth II English sterling silver claret jug with matching goblets; an addition to our range ...

An extremely elegant Victorian silver claret jug with pear-shaped body decorated with hand-engraved floral swags and garlands. It has an ov...

An impressive silver beer jug with high-relief, chased scenes of a stag hunt among scrolling foliage and floral designs. This substantial piece, made by a fine silversmith, has a cas...

Large sterling mounted cut-glass claret jug, with hinged top, on a cylinder cut-glass diamond pattern handled jug. Measures: Standing 12.5" high, 6" wide to the handle. Stamped .925.