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Sterling Silver For Sale
Goldsmith A. Aucoc Suite Of Four Cups In Sterling Silver Nineteenth
By A. Aucoc
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Model mounted on a round pedestal decorated with a laurel leaf and surmounted by a poly-lobed cup whose inner edge is chiselled and pierced with grooves and surrounded by a laurel fr...
Category
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique 1940s Gentleman's Sterling Silver Pocket or Hip Flask by Asprey London
Located in St. Louis, MO
Sleek & elegant gentleman's pocket spirits hip flask in sterling silver by Asprey London circa 1940 with slight curve to body, great craftsmanship. Hallmarked Asprey London with assa...
Category
1940s Edwardian Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
A Victorian 1898 hallmarked sterling silver footed dish by Mappin & Webb London
Located in London, GB
A Victorian 1898 silver footed dish by Mappin & Webb London.
Circular repoussé decoration dish supported by tripartite legs.
Perfect for use as a trinket dish as a bon-bon or condi...
Category
1890s British Victorian Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Goldsmith Christofle - Table Centerpiece In Silver Bronze And XIXth Crystal Cup
By Christofle
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Centerpiece in silvered bronze composed of a cut crystal cup placed on a pedestal and supported by two puttis
Dimensions: length 44 cm - cup diameter 22 cm height 16.5 cm
Material: b...
Category
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Especially Table In Its Oak Chest Late Nineteenth
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Especially for a table in three parts of half-moon shape with a bottom of mirrors, mounted on an oak parquet, silver-plated metal ingot mold with double evolution. Small lack in the ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Art Deco Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Goldsmith Cardeilhac - Table Top 3 Cups In Sterling Silver And Crystal Nineteent
By Cardeilhac
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Table set formed by three cups in solid silver and cut crystal. The rockery-style tripod base with acanthus leaves and arabesque decoration supports a cut crystal cup. on each side a...
Category
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
English Sterling Silver Vanity Manicure Nail Kit Set Suite, 20th Century
Located in Savannah, GA
English Sterling Silver Vanity Manicure Nail Kit Set Suite, 20th Century
Category
Early 20th Century English Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Goldsmith Christofle - Planter In Silver Bronze XIXth Century
By Christofle
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Rectangular silver bronze planter resting at the four corners on four pilasters decorated with masks and grooves. The perimeter decorated with a low frieze with ribbon and a high fri...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Set of Ten Sterling Silver Coaster Dishes, Early 20th Century
Located in Savannah, GA
Set of Ten Sterling Silver Coaster Dishes, Early 20th Century
Category
Early 20th Century English Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Tiffany Frame
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Being offered is a sterling silver frame by the world renowned Tiffany and Company. It’s a standard four-by-six picture frame with a black leather back. The sterling silver has a s...
Category
1960s American Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Risler & Carre - Important Table Centerpiece In Sterling Silver XIXth Century
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Important solid silver centerpiece in two parts formed by a tray decorated with waves and a planter surmounted by a putti, decorated with shells and crustaceans.
Dimensions: tray 73 ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Christofle - Important Table Centerpiece In Sterling Silver Nineteenth
By Christofle
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Solid silver centerpiece in a round shape, placed on rolling clog feet. The subject is a decoration of sheep as well as heads of bulls framing a sculpture of a Shepherd dressed in th...
Category
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Goldsmith Odiot - Vegetable On His Platter In Sterling Silver Nineteenth
By Odiot
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Goldsmith ODIOT - Vegetable dish on its platter in solid silver XIXth Legumier in solid silver, round in shape, the plain body with pinched ribs, is bordered at the neck by a frieze ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
A. Aucoc - Important Table Center In Sterling Silver Late Nineteenth
By A. Aucoc
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Important centerpiece in solid silver represented by a covered tureen mounted on four winding feet and placed on its tray. Richly decorated with Bérain engravings, edging of gadroons...
Category
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Goldsmith Roussel - Rafraichissoir In Sterling Silver XIXth
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Solid silver cooler mounted on an ogee pedestal. The plain body is decorated with applique seashells, flanked on either side by a zoomorphic grip represented by a lion's head holding...
Category
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Goldsmith Lapparra - Vase In Sterling Silver Art Deco Period
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Large baluster-shaped solid silver vase decorated with vertical grooves, fixed on a stepped wooden base set with silver at the four corners.
Dimensions: height: 27.5 cm - diameter 21...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Goldsmith Cardeilhac - Sauceboat On Its Adherent Tray In Silver Art Deco Period
By Cardeilhac
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Sauce boat in plain solid silver, with screwed adherent tray, octagonal in shape with curved sides following the line of the tray.
Dimensions: length 23.5 cm - width 14 cm - height 7...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Goldsmith Tétard - Above All Oval Table In Solid Silver XIXth
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
The scalloped centerpiece, with a mirror bottom on an oak parquet floor, is surrounded by a solid silver ingot mold decorated with strong nets and staples. The center rests on six sc...
Category
18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Goldsmith Bancelin - Soup Tureen In Sterling Silver Around 1950/1960
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Centerpiece represented by a solid silver octagonal tureen. the domed body is engraved on four sides with a decoration of foliage and shell arabesques, flanked on each side by chisel...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Goldsmith Odiot - Double Sauceboat On Tray In Sterling Silver Late Nineteenth
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Double sauce boat in solid silver plain decor, mounted on four foliated legs, monogrammed, placed on a adherent tray.
Dimensions: width 26 cm - depth 20 cm - height 12 cm
Material: s...
Category
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Tetard - Centerpiece 3 Parts And Its Planter In XIXth Vermeil
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Important surtout de table in three parts of Louis XVI style, with background of mirrors, on a wooden floor, set with a strong vermeil ingot mold chiseled with laurels.
Its Jardinièr...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Oval Fruit Bowl In Hammered Silver XXth Around 1960 Zurich
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Oval fruit bowl in hammered solid silver mounted on a 1 cm oval base.
Dimensions: length 34 cm - width 25.5 cm - height 5 cm
Material: Silver
Weight: 812 grams
Hallmark: SWAN (guaran...
Category
1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Set of 10 Wallace Waltz of Spring Pattern Sterling Silver Salt Spoons or Dips
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine set of salt dips.
By Wallace.
In sterling silver.
In the Waltz of Spring pattern.
Each spoon was likely mounted as with a pin to the reverse. Often jeweler would mount the...
Category
20th Century American Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
A. Aucoc - Surtout Table In Three Parts Sterling Silver L. XVI - Nineteenth
By A. Aucoc
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Mainly table in three parts with a background of mirrors, on an oak parquet floor, surrounded by a large solid silver ingot mold decorated with a frieze of laurels and garlands in th...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Ravinet d'Enfert - Silver Refresher On Portor Marble Circa 1930
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Important Refresher in solid silver on a round Portor marble base flanked by two handles, the body united in the shape of a trapeze.
Dimensions: height 32 cm - length at the handles ...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Vintage Pair of Neo-classical Silver Sterling Photo Frames Harry Frane
Located in London, GB
A truly superb pair of Vintage Neo-classical sterling silver photo frames, by Harry Frane, London Dated 2012.
The beautiful rectangular shaped photo frames are superbly decorated ...
Category
2010s English Neoclassical Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Centerpiece In Sterling Silver On Its Dormant Germany Late Nineteenth
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Very important TABLE CENTER in solid silver mounted on a pedestal and placed on an openwork frame, the sockets are largely foliated; Medallion decoration and Louis XVI ribbon.
Dimens...
Category
Late 19th Century German Napoleon III Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Goldsmith Motti - Art Deco Sterling Silver Centerpiece (1927-1932)
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Important centerpiece in solid silver represented by an octagonal covered soup tureen with canted sides mounted on a pedestal and flanked by two geometric handles.
Dimensions: height...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Goldsmith A. Aucoc - Sterling Silver Oval Tray 19th Century
By A. Aucoc
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Large oval scalloped platter in solid silver with a belt of strong threads radiating decoration, in the center a stylized cartridge with an interlaced "MC" monogram. Hammer mounted.
...
Category
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Paul Storr Antique Georgian Sterling Silver Salts
By Paul Storr
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive set of three antique Georgian English sterling silver salts made by Paul Storr; an addition to our silver cruet and condiment collection.
These...
Category
1810s British George III Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Mayflower by Kirk Sterling Silver Flatware Set 12 Service 48 pcs No monograms
Located in Big Bend, WI
Gorgeous Mayflower by Kirk Sterling Silver Flatware set - 48 pieces. This set includes:
12 Knives w/stainless modern blades, 9"
12 Forks, 7 1/4"
12 Salad Forks, 6 1/2"
12 Teaspoons,...
Category
20th Century Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
1950s Daffodil Silverware by International Silver signed 1847 by Rodgers Bros
By John Rodgers & Co.
Located in Van Nuys, CA
This vintage silver-plated Daffodil flatware by Rogers Bros dates back to 1950. A lovely set of silver plate flatware in the Daffodil pattern from In...
Category
1850s American Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Sterling Silver Boudoir Dressing Tabletop Mirror
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful and large, antique dressing mirror in sterling silver retailed by the Grogan Company of Pittsburgh, active 1890-1930. Apparently with original mirror and original felt cov...
Category
Early 20th Century American Georgian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
1810 Italian 800 Silver Flatware Set for 12 Service 77 pieces fitted box Dinner
Located in Big Bend, WI
Very Heavy .800 Italian Silver Flatware set in the pattern 1810 (Fiddle shape) in its original vintage fitted chest - 77 pieces. This set includes:
...
Category
20th Century Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Lapparra - Vegetable Dish And Sauce Boat In Solid Silver Circa 19th Century
By Lapparra - Gabriel
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Pair of solid silver sauce boats, oblong in shape, adorned with a frieze of gadroons on the neck, the pinched ribbed body is engraved with a Bérain decoration on a matte background, ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XIV Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Silversmith Souche Lapparra - Solid Silver Basket Circa 20th Century
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Oblong silver basket, hemmed edge, body decorated with pierced braces, has a plain cartouche on each side and rests on a molded base.
Dimensions: length 30 cm - width 20 cm - height...
Category
Early 20th Century French Napoleon III Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pair Antique Silver Pheasants Model Birds Figurines Germany c. 1900
Located in London, GB
A pair of Antique Solid Silver Pheasants made in a classic style with a lovely attention to detail. The pair consists of a Cock Pheasant and a Hen Pheasant, each unique and modelled in individual poses.
Made in Germany in c. 1900.
Total Weight - 1694g / 54.47oz
Approx. Length Cock Pheasant - 35.8cm
Approx. Height Cock Pheasant - 18.1cm
Approx. Length Hen - 36cm
Approx. Height Hen - 16.6cm
This Pair of Silver Pheasants...
Category
Early 20th Century European Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Antique William IV Sterling Silver Mustard Pot (1832)
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique William IV English sterling silver mustard pot; an addition to our silver cruets/condiments collection.
This exceptional antique William ...
Category
1830s English Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver English Candlesticks
By Adolph Scott
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Being offered is a pair of sterling silver candlesticks made in London, England in 1956. They are designed in the neoclassical style, Corinthian to be exact. The word "Corinthian" ...
Category
1950s English Neoclassical Revival Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Box In Hammered Sterling Silver Epoque Twentieth Northern Italy
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Box in hammered solid silver, spherical in shape, the lid is surmounted by a round socket decorated with a flattened button.
Dimensions: diameter 24.5 cm - base diameter 17 cm height...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Cardeilhac Goldsmith - Flat 45 Cm In Sterling Silver Model Fer De Lance Mascaron
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Rectangular octagonal dish in solid silver decorated with a spearhead and two mascaron heads numbered "EC" in applique.
silverware
Dimensions: length 45 cm width 30 cm
Material: silv...
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19th Century French Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Goldsmith Je Caldwell - Jug In Hammered Sterling Silver Twentieth Century
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Magnificent PITCHER in hammered sterling silver decorated with hops leaves, reeds and a stork, flanked by a hammered handle applied as an applique. Japanese decor.
Dimensions: height...
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Early 20th Century Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Hammered Men’s Box
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Being offered is a sterling silver box with a hammered finish. The inside is wood lined; we had the wood stripped and re-stained in a rich walnut brown. The lid of the box has a fi...
Category
1940s American Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Sciarrotta Bowl
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Being offered is an oval Mid-Century bowl by the world famous Alfredo Sciarrotta.
Sciarrotta's work is characterized by a sleek and simple style, and many of his smaller pieces fea...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Vintage Wooden Ebony Chinese Walking Stick Dress Cane Sterling Silver
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Fine Quality Chinese Polished Heavy Gauge Ebony Walking Cane Stick with Highly Decorative Embossed Silver Grip, made in China during the last quarter of the Nineteenth Century.
Th...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Victorian Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Cigarette Case fired Enamel stripes in Art Deco style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large rectangular table box with long rounded sides in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled stripes in Art Deco style. With “lost” hinge, i.e. semi-invisible. Dimensions cm. 10.5 x 15 x 2.3. Weight gr. 548. Inspired by drawings by Louis Cartier from the early 1900s in Art Deco style and recreated for Cartier USA in the 1980s, manufactured in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick and thick slabs reinforcements suitable for supporting numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 800° C.
About cooperation Salimbeni and Cartier.
Our first meetings with the Cartier USA Company took place through the Giorgini Company, the first "Buying Office" set up in Florence immediately after the Second World War, which had the purpose of bringing together Florentine, and also Italian, producers with American buyers, who especially appreciated the artistic objects still manufactured by artisans who still took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, using techniques handed down from generation to generation.
Mrs. Gina Pestelli, wife of a Florentine retail jeweller, was in charge of contacts with Cartier USA, above all an employee, while her daughter, also for Giorgini, took care of the fashion that in those years was affirmed in Florence with the events of "Pitti ".
With their help, we began to supply frames and boxes in sterling silver gold plated with malachite and other semi-precious stones.
At the same time, the official buyer of Cartier, Mr. William Smith, began to appreciate and commission the first objects with fired enamels, a process of which we have always been specialists.
In 1975 we began exhibiting at the prestigious New York Jewellery Association Show, which we participated in both the February and July editions, for a good 26 years until 2001.
In New York in those years the "Art deco style" was still very much appreciated, still mindful of the beautiful early 20th century architecture of the great buildings such as the "Crysler" or the "Empire State".
We then began to produce frames, boxes, evening bags, "objets de vertu" and other objects in "art deco style" which were very popular with Mr. Smith who gave us some photocopies of Louis Francois Cartier drawings to reproduce them. Thus, numerous cigarette cases, powder compacts, evening bags, frames and table boxes were created exclusively for Cartier USA which, at the time, had the prestigious "Silver Department" on the first floor of the Cartier store on Fifth Avenue.
An evening bag, with matching cigarette case and powder compact, were redone on the design created for a gift given to Mary Pickford at the time. In a 1986 Cartier catalogue...
Category
1960s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Art Deco sterling silver sandwich/cigarette box by William Base & Sons
Located in Braintree, GB
Art Deco sterling silver 925 sandwich/cigarette box featuring a silver gilt interior. The box is crafted in a book-style shape with engine-turned decoration.
Maker: William Base & So...
Category
1920s British Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Vintage "LaPaglia" Table Lighter by Georg Jensen
By Georg Jensen
Located in San Diego, CA
Vintage "LaPaglia" table lighter by Georg Jensen, circa 1950s. The lighter is in good vintage condition and measures 2"D x 2.25"H. The lighters spring mechanism works well; it has n...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Metal, Sterling Silver
Vintage Art Deco Style Sterling Silver Fruit Dish by Walker & Hall
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive vintage George VI sterling silver fruit dish in the Art Deco style, made by Walker & Hall; part of our Art Deco silverware collection.
This exceptional vintage George VI sterling silver fruit dish has a circular shaped form onto a circular spreading foot, all in the Art Deco style.
The surface of this vintage silver dish...
Category
1940s British Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Antique George V Sterling Silver Napkin Rings by Guild of Handicraft (1933)
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive set of four antique George V English sterling silver and cabochon hardstone Arts and Crafts style napkin rings made by Guild of Handicraft; part o...
Category
1930s Arts and Crafts Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Mid 20th Century Silver Kiddush, Eliyahu Hanavi cup by Bezalel School Jerusalem
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Important Handmade sterling silver Kiddush (eliyahu hanavi cup) goblet by Bezalel School, Jerusalem, circa 1948. On round base decorated with silver filigree and Cabouchon shaped o...
Category
1940s Israeli Aesthetic Movement Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Agate, Silver
19th Century English Sterling Steer Snuff Box, London 1862
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
19th Century English Sterling Steer Snuff Box, London, 1862
With numerous hallmarks, including the Maker's Mark of 'BM'
For aficionados of 19th-century English silver, we are pleas...
Category
19th Century English High Victorian Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Large Sterling Silver Wine Pitcher, circa 1900
Located in New York, NY
Made by Dominick and Haff (New York, 1868-1928) was absorbed into Reed and Barton. Retailed by J.E. Caldwell and Co.
Category
Early 1900s Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver & Crystal Bowl
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Based in Corning, NY, T.G. Hawkes & Co. (c.1880-1959) was established by Thomas Gibbons Hawkes. Born in Ireland, Hawkes immigrated to Brooklyn in 1862, then moved to Corning, openin...
Category
1910s American Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Salad Set, “Angelo”
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Being offered is a salad fork and spoon by Gorham Silversmiths of Providence, Rhode Island. Hallmarked 1875 in the “Angelo” pattern, they are almost one hundred and fifty years old!...
Category
1870s American Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Gabriel De Vecchi - Solid Silver Vase Italian Design Xxth
By De Vecchi 1
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Solid silver vase contemporary Italian design
dated and signed.
Dimensions: height 24 cm - width 10 cm
the base 14.5 cm X 9 cm
Material: 1st grade silver...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Victorian Sterling silver 925 fruit salad cutlery set of fork and spoon
Located in Braintree, GB
Antique Victorian Sterling silver 925 fruit salad cutlery set of fork and spoon by Chawner & Co (George William Adams). The set is beautifully decorated with two putti and grapevine ...
Category
1860s British Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Goldsmith Henin - Centerpiece In Solid Silver Art Deco Period
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Large solid silver centerpiece plain model mounted on a rectangular and octagonal pedestal on which is placed a hollow cup with canted sides.
Dimensions: length 40 cm width 27 cm he...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Vintage, New and Antique Sterling Silver
Dining and entertaining changed drastically when we began to set our tables with sterling silver for holiday gatherings, wedding receptions, engagement parties and, in some of today’s homes, everyday meals.
Often called the “Queen of metals,” silver has been universally adored for thousands of years. It is easy to see why it has always been sought after: It is durable, strong and beautiful. (Louis XIV had tables made entirely of silver.) Sterling silver is an alloy that is made of 92.5 percent silver — the “925” stamp that identifies sterling-silver jewelry refers to this number. The other 7.5 percent in sterling silver is typically sourced from copper.
Neoclassical-style sterling-silver goods in Europe gained popularity in the late 18th century — a taste for sterling-silver tableware as well as tea sets had taken shape — while in the United States, beginning in the 19th century, preparing the dinner table with sterling-silver flatware had become somewhat of a standard practice. Indeed, owning lots of silver goods during the Victorian era was a big deal. Back then, displaying fine silver at home was a status symbol for middle-class American families. And this domestic silver craze meant great profitability for legendary silversmith manufacturers such as Reed & Barton, Gorham Manufacturing Company and the International Silver Company, which was incorporated in Meriden, Connecticut, in 1898, a major hub of silver manufacturing nicknamed “Silver City.”
Today, special occasions might call for ceremonial silver designed by Tiffany & Co. or the seductive sterling-silver cutlery from remarkable Danish silversmith Georg Jensen, but there really doesn’t have to be an event on the calendar to trot out your finest tableware.
Event- and wedding-planning company maestro Tara Guérard says that some “investment pieces,” such as this widely enamored alloy, should see everyday use, and we’re inclined to agree.
“Sterling-silver flatware is a must-have that you can use every single day, even to eat cereal,” she says. “Personally, I want a sterling-silver goblet set for 12 to 20; I would use them every time I had a dinner party. Ultimately, there are no criteria for buying vintage pieces: Buy what you love, and make it work.”
Whether you’re thinking “ceremonial” or “cereal,” browse a versatile collection of vintage, new and antique sterling-silver wares on 1stDibs today.
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