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Sterling Silver For Sale
Style: Art Deco
Style: Louis XV
Evald Nielsen Rare and Complete Fruit Service for Eight Persons, Sterling Silver
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Evald Nielsen, rare and complete fruit service for eight persons in sterling silver.
Measures: fruit knife 17.5 cm.
Stamped, 1920s.
In perfect condit...
Category
1920s Danish Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Volmer Bahner Salt & Pepper Set in Sterling Silver & Enamel Guilloche, 1960s
By Ovesen and Volmer Bahner
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Beautiful set consisting of salt and pepper shaker in sterling silver and maroon/red and lemon yellow enamel guilloche. This ...
Category
1940s Danish Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Tiffany & Co. Sterling Silver 1923 65-Piece Windham Flatware Set Art Deco Style
Located in New York, NY
Tiffany & Co. sterling silver flatware set from 1923 in Art Deco style and in Windham pattern, with a beautiful geometric design, consisting of the following 65 pieces:
12 place for...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
1920/30s ART DECO Solid Silver Cigarette Case by Hugo Grün
Located in Skien, NO
This stunning antique silver cigarette case, crafted in the elegant Art Deco style, dates from the 1920s-1930s. Made of solid 835s fine ...
Category
Early 20th Century Danish Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Art Deco Sterling Silver and Enamel Freedom Box, 1941 Arms of Borough of Slough
Located in London, GB
An impressive Art Deco solid Silver Freedom Box embellished with the arms of the Borough of Slough in deep rich enameled colors. The interior of the base i...
Category
20th Century English Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Georg Jensen Sterling Cosmos Pattern Coffee Set
By Georg Jensen
Located in Sarasota, FL
Georg Jensen sterling tea/coffee 3 piece set. Cosmos pattern designed by Johan Rhode for Jensen. Ebony wood handles.
Marked for maker, designer and sterling, after 1945. Pattern num...
Category
20th Century Danish Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Money Box Piggy Bank Silver 830 Art Deco Jacob Grimminger Germany made 1930
Located in Vienna, AT
German silver money box or piggy bank
manufactured during first quarter of 20th century / made circa 1930
Excellently made Art Deco money box (pi...
Category
1930s German Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Art Deco Silver Samovar
Located in Paris, FR
An elegant and rare silver Art Deco samovar with beautiful Macassar ebony details.
Measures: Weight 2295 g.
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Hand Hammered Art Deco Sterling Silver Tazza for Tessiers of London
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1934 by Parson Brothers for Tessiers, this fine quality, George V, Sterling Silver Tazza, is plain in style, featuring a hand hammered finish to the pedestal ...
Category
1930s English Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Georg Jensen Sterling Bowl, 546B, circa 1931
By Georg Jensen
Located in Sarasota, FL
Georg Jensen hand hammered Art Deco footed sterling bowl designed by Georg Jensen himself. Beautiful hand hammered surface. The bowl has 1925-1931 marks, and designer "GI" for Georg ...
Category
Early 20th Century Danish Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
An Art Deco Silver Hanukkah Menorah, Austria Circa 1920
Located in New York, NY
Splendid Austrian hammered silver Hanukkah Menorah made in the Art Deco style of that period when the style was transitioning.
Menorah is set on a hexagonal flat form mounted with a...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
XX Century Italian Solid Silver 800 Two-compartment sugar bowl
By Vavassori
Located in VALENZA, IT
Sugar bowl with two compartments in art deco style.
The rectangular-octagonal structure has a completely hand-shaped body.
The interior has been divided into 2 parts by a silver shee...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Art Deco Sterling Tea Service by Wolfers Freres
By Marcel Wolfers
Located in Sarasota, FL
Art Deco sterling tea service and tray with bone handles. Designed in 1936 by Marcel
Wolfers, and depicted in a book about Wolfers Freres. The service...
Category
Early 20th Century Belgian Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
ANTON MICHELSEN 1930 Pair Of Blue Enameled Fluted Vases In Sterling Silver
Located in Miami, FL
Pair of enameled vases designed by Anton Michelsen.
This is a gorgeous pair of enameled vases created in Copenhagen Denmark by the Anton Michelsen Co., back in the 1930. The vases h...
Category
1930s Danish Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Goldsmith Tetard - Art Deco Solid Silver Tray Circa 1930
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
"Goldsmith Tetard - Art Deco Solid Silver Tray Circa 1930"
Octagonal shaped top mounted with a hammer, flat double-thin rim, flanked on each side by geometric handles.
Dimensions: le...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Art deco sterling silver trophy made in London in 1927
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1927 by Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co., this handsome, George V period, Sterling Silver Trophy, is in the art deco taste, with reed borders around the handles,...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel with Still Life Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table cigarette case with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with beautiful miniature fire enamelled and hand painted by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing a "still life" by the Flemish painter Willem Claes Heda. Dimensions cm. 5.7 x 9 x 1.7. Weight gr. 174. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1969 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various subjects and different colors, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni Company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at about 800° C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
Hand-painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors.
With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color.
It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times.
Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene.
Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...
Category
1960s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
RODEN BROTHERS - Louis XV - Sterling Silver Serving Spoon - Canada - Circa 1910
Located in Chatham, ON
RODEN BROTHERS LIMITED - Louis XV pattern - Rare antique sterling silver serving spoon - signed/hallmarked on the back of the handle - Canada - circa 1910.
Excellent antique conditi...
Category
Early 20th Century Canadian Louis XV Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Mappin & Webb Sterling Silver and Blue Glass Salt and Pepper cellars dated 1919
Located in London, GB
Presenting for sale a stunning pair of Art Deco Sterling Silver Hallmarked Salt (and/ or Pepper) Cellars with their original Blue Glass liners made by the renowned UK silversmiths Ma...
Category
1910s British Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Silver Plate Cocktail Shaker and Ice Bucket Delheid c1935
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Silver plate cocktail shaker and ice bucket Delheid Freres
Date : c1935
Origin : Belgium
Decoration : Three piece shaker, abstract band to body of both shaker and bucket. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
David Andersen Silver Gilt & Guilloche Enamel Napkin Ring c.1920
Located in Bath, GB
A stunning and rarely found Norwegian napkin ring made by the famous silversmith, David Andersen.
The ring is made from sterling silver, stamped 925 (925/1000) and lavishly washed ...
Category
1920s Norwegian Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Puiforcat French Sterling Silver Platter Tray Art Deco Style Early 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Emile Puiforcat, French 0.950 (higher purity than sterling) silver platter tray in Art Deco style, from the early 20th century, in a geometrically inspired design. It measures 11 3/4...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Roussel-doutre - Important 20th Century Silver Cooler
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
"Roussel-doutre - Important 20th Century Silver Cooler"
Important Cooler in solid silver, model resting on an octagonal pedestal, molded with gadroons as a reminder on the edges of t...
Category
20th Century French Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Hukin & Heath - Rare Art Deco Solid / Sterling Silver Toast Rack
Located in Bath, GB
A perfectly stylish toast rack made from solid English silver in a stunning and unusual Art Deco design made by the highly collectable silversmith, Hukin and Heath.
The silver is fu...
Category
1930s British Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Art Deco Sterling Silver Canteen of Cutlery for Twelve Persons
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique George V English sterling silver Art Deco flatware service for twelve persons; an addition to our antique flatware sets...
Category
1930s British Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Evening Bag with fire enamelled stripes in Art Deco style Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval evening bag in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire enamelled stripes in Art Deco style. Measurement cm. 5.5 x 10 x 14.8, interior with ground mirror. Weight gr. 748. Created in 1...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Art Deco Sterling Silver and Yellow Guilloche Enamel and Crystal Powder Jar
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful, Art Deco, sterling silver and yellow guilloche enamel-mounted cut crystal powder jar, Birmingham, England, 1929, Adie Bros. - makers. The yellow guilloche enamel that deco...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver, Enamel
French Silver Art Deco Tea and Coffee Service by Cardeilhac
By Cardeilhac
Located in Sarasota, FL
French silver Art Deco tea and coffee service by well known maker Cardeilhac. Each piece is marked with French hallmarks and signed.
...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Lelièvre (eugène-alfred) – tiffany solid silver coffee pot circa 1880 art nouvea
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Large solid silver coffee pot with flat bottom, ovoid body, carved ebony handle, fixed with an umbel flower decoration. We find this same decoration under...
Category
Late 19th Century French Art Deco Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
French Art Deco Silver Figural Smoking Monkey & Pipe Knife Rest by Louis Mathey
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine, signed French Art Deco knife rest.
In French second standard silver.
By Louis Mathey, the renowned French Art Deco silversmith.
In the form of a flat cut bar terminating in 2 seated monkeys each smoking...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Novelty Antique English Sterling Silver Jewelry Box, 1921
Located in Bath, GB
A wonderfully handsome and unusual jewelry box in the form of a bow fronted drawers on legs or a dressing table with two solid silver knobs to the fron...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Georg Jensen Pyramid. Sauce spoon in sterling silver, all silver.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Georg Jensen Pyramid.
Sauce spoon in sterling silver, all silver.
Hallmark: 1933-1944.
In perfect condition.
Dimensions: Length 18.0 cm.
Category
1930s Danish Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Tetard Freres Shell & Bead 950 Silver Flatware Set Service French 128 pcs Dinner
Located in Big Bend, WI
Founded in 1880 by Edmond Tétard (1860-1901) following the purchase of the house of Mr. Hugo. In 1889, he participated in the World Expo and received a Gold Medal. The house specializes in services and Louis XV style pieces. In 1901, the house was taken over by his three sons, Henri, Jacques and Georges under the name Tétard Frères. From the 1920s, the house works after the models of Valery Bizouard (1875-1945) and Louis Tardy (1881-1978), creators of Avant Garde. Jean Tétard...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Art Deco Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Vintage Cut Crystal and Sterling Silver Box, Birmingham, 1931
Located in Bath, GB
A magnificent large box made from a hefty piece of English crystal with a variety of intricate cutting creating an impressive and truly glamorous piece.
The hinged rims are made f...
Category
Early 20th Century English Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
Antique Tiffany & Co. Art Deco Period Sterling Silver Napkin Ring
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique silver napkin ring.
In sterling silver.
By Tiffany & Co.
With engraved lines to the top and bottom edges.
Together with ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Spot-Hammered Quaich, R.E. Stone, London, 1946
By R E Stone
Located in Glasgow, GB
A George VI sterling silver Quaich in the Art Deco style; hallmarked London, 1946, and made by highly collectable silversmith R.E. Stone. The Quaich is of circular spot-hammered form...
Category
1940s British Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Box with wedges Enamel Sterling Silver black and white Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal wedge box in 925/1000 sterling silver with black and white colors fire enameled in Art Deco style. Measures 7.8 x 7.8 x 6 cm. Weight gr. 281. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni ...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Octagonal Black Enamel with light Blue Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco design. Dimensions diameter cm. 15.8 high cm . 8.2. Weight gr. 974. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by objects designed by Louis Cartier around 1920 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens, also in parure with other objects and in different colors, in the headquarters by the Salimbeni firm with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 750°<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...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Georg Jensen Pyramid. Short-handled dinner knife. Dated 1933-1944
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Georg Jensen Pyramid.
Short-handled dinner knife.
Sterling silver. Stainless steel blade.
Hallmarked: 1933-1944.
In perfect condition.
Dimensions: L 22,5 cm.
Category
1930s Danish Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Stainless Steel
Art Deco Sterling Silver Dish, Mappin & Webb, 1936
Located in Glasgow, GB
Mappin & Webb sterling silver dish in Art Deco style with dual handles featuring geometric patterns, reeded edge, engraved inner band, and a castellated base.
• Assay: .925 (Sterlin...
Category
1930s British Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
De Vecchi – Vase In Sterling Silver Italian Design 1970
By De Vecchi 1
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Oblong-shaped silver cooler, futuristic model with a flat bottom and worked in one piece. United body.
Dimensions: height 26 cm – width at the neck 14 cm
Subject: Agent 1st title 9...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Georg Jensen Pyramid. Set of six dinner forks in sterling silver.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Georg Jensen Pyramid.
A set of six dinner forks in sterling silver.
Hallmarked after 1945.
In perfect condition.
Dimensions: L 18.0 cm.
Category
20th Century Danish Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Georg Jensen Pyramid. Bottle opener in sterling silver and stainless steel.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Georg Jensen Pyramid.
Bottle opener in sterling silver and stainless steel.
Hallmark: After 1944.
Perfect condition.
Dimensions: Length 11.0 cm.
Category
20th Century Danish Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Stainless Steel
Fountain Pen Sterling Silver fired Enamel Guilloche Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Fountain Pen Sterling Silver 925/1000 with translucent fired enamel on guilloche.
Fountain Pen Sterling Silver has 14 carats gold nib and ink cartridge.
Fountain Pen Sterling Silve...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Georg Jensen Pyramid. Bottle opener in sterling silver and stainless steel.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Georg Jensen Pyramid.
Compote spoon in sterling silver.
Hallmark: 1915-1932.
Perfect condition.
Dimensions: Length 9.8 cm.
Category
20th Century Danish Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Stainless Steel
Georg Jensen Pyramid. Two cold meat forks in sterling silver.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Georg Jensen Pyramid.
Two cold meat forks in sterling silver.
Hallmarks: 1915-1932 and 1933-1944.
Perfect condition.
Dimensions: Length 14.0 cm.
Category
1910s Danish Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Sugar Spoon-Early 20th Century
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sterling silver sugar spoon with a long graceful handle. The piece has a hallmark and is stamped Sterling. Probably English.
Category
Early 20th Century European Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Petite Travel / Pocket Solid Silver Shoehorn - 1928
Located in Bath, GB
A charming little shoehorn, due to it's smaller size, I assume it was made for travel / pocket use.
Made from solid sterling silver it has an import mark formally hallmarked in the ...
Category
1920s British Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Base Talcum Powder Holder Black and White Art Deco 925 Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Hexagonal base talcum powder holder in black and white fired enamel in 925/1000 sterling silver with perforated screw cap and pressure counter-cap, in Art Deco style. Base cm, 5.3 x ...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Rare Art Deco Period Sterling Silver-Mounted Glass Owl-Form Match Striker
Located in New York, NY
Rare, Art Deco Period, sterling silver-mounted glass owl-form match striker (with original glass eyes), London, England, year-hallmarked for 1925. Excellent detail.
Matches are stru...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
English Art Deco Sterling Silver Blue White Guilloche Enamel Brush Dresser Set
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Beautiful blue guilloche enamel and sterling silver three piece brush set featuring a mirror and 2 brushes. This set was made in Birmingham England by D.M. & Co. Davis, Moss & Co. Th...
Category
Early 20th Century English Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Art Deco A. Michelsen Sterling Silver & Enamel 1931 Christmas Spoon & Fork Set
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Christmas souvenir spoon set.
By Anton Michelsen.
In sterling silver with gilt decoration throughout and enamel decoration to the h...
Category
1930s Danish Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Carl M. Cohr Elite Cake / Coffee Forks & Spoons in Silver, Set of 25
By Carl M. Cohr
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A set of 25 pieces (12+12+1) spoons, cake forks and a single cream spoon. This design/patterns is called Elite and was made at Carl Cohr's silver workshop in Denmark circa 1900-1940....
Category
Early 19th Century Danish Art Deco Antique Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Striking English Cut Crystal and Sterling Silver Art Deco Decanter, 1935
Located in Bath, GB
A truly striking Art Deco decanter made from a hefty piece of glass, beautifully hand-cut. The towering stopper sits in a collar which is wrapped in English sterling silver, fully ha...
Category
1930s Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Glass
English Sterling Silver Cream and Sugar, Art Deco, London, 1935
Located in Bath, GB
A fine quality and very stylish cream and sugar set made from a good heavy gauge of sterling silver with a very elegant Art Deco design.
Each piece is fully hallmarked for London ...
Category
1930s English Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Georg Jensen Cactus. A six-person lunch set in sterling silver.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Georg Jensen Cactus. A six-person lunch set in sterling silver.
Comprising six long-handled lunch knives, six lunch forks, and six tablespoons.
Stamped with after 1944 hallmark.
In p...
Category
20th Century Danish Art Deco Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Large Antique Silver Cup JARDINJÄR Silver & Crystal European Decorative Bowl Cup
Located in Wembley, GB
Antique silver cup or large Decorative food or fruit cup, pressed, cast and chased. Circular, curved feet with hinged. unstamped, tested with the scratch test, Height 15cm, Width 41c...
Category
1930s British Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Silver, Sterling Silver
Art Deco Sterling Silver-Mounted Shagreen Table Box
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco, sterling silver-mounted shagreen table box, London, 1923, Charles Boynton & Sons, Ltd, makers. Measures: 6 1/4" wide x 3 1/2" deep x 2 1/4" high. Wood lined. Shagreen is be...
Category
Early 20th Century British 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.