Antique English Sterling Silver Art Nouveau Reticulated Tazza / Bowl / Comport

An outstanding large covered bowl or dish made from heavy hand-cut crystal, a true grand centrepiece. The Dutch silver mount is marked with the s...

An exquisite Art Deco powder bowl by one of the finest quality English silversmith's, Walker and Hall of Sheffield. The base is made from fine quality crystal with beautiful hand-cutting and a star cut underside. The lid is made form silver-gilt (gold on silver) and is hallmarked for Sheffield 1930. The top is covered with a wonderful blue guilloche enamel, with a good bright patina showcasing the Art Deco engine turned design below. The bowl is lucky enough to have a vintage Swans Down...

A fabulous Edwardian match striker, clear glass decorated with spun red glass creating an unusual and highly decorative example. The top is ...

A very smart Art Deco corkscrew with a wonderful sterling silver handle fully hallmarked for Birmingham 1937 together with the maker's mark for G W Lewis & Co. A stylish piece of ...

A really pretty Edwardian pieced or reticulated dish, beautifully shaped outlined with a beaded rim and a scroll decorated handle each end. The dish has a full English hallmark for London 1908...

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...

A magnificent, fine and impressive antique Edwardian English sterling silver Monteith bowl; an addition to our range of collectable silverware. This magnificent antique Edwardian sterling silver bowl has a large Monteith form onto a spreading foot. The body of this antique Edwardian monteith bowl is ornamented with exceptional panels of flat engraved decoration, incorporating dynamic chinoiserie characters amongst foliate and towering structures; it can be determined that such a frieze of figures relates to a historical event or folklore. Each panel is segmented with concave fluted pales to a matte textured plateau. The decoration to the body incorporates a leaf bordered cartouche to one side, displaying a contemporary bright cut engraved coat of arms, all above the motto 'Vix Ea Nostra Voco' - I scarce call these deeds of our ancestors ours*. These heraldic markings are surmounted with the contemporary bright cut engraved crest of on a mount, a hind lodged in front of a hawthorn-tree, ducally gorged and chained*. This exceptional example of antique silverware is fitted with two cast and applied handles, each fashioned in the form of lion's masks grasping a hallmarked drop-ring handle. The detachable shaped rim of this antique Monteith bowl...

Whiting sterling silver table centerpiece/ fruit bowl decorated with gorgeous, dimensional leaf and flowers motif all around the rim in Art Nouveau style from 1905. It measures 14.1 inches in diameter by 3.8 inches in height, weighs 32.2 ozt, and bears hallmarks as shown. Originally in Massachusetts, Whiting Manufacturing Company relocated to New York in 1875. The company was purchased by Gorham in 1924 and the production transferred to Providence, Rhode Island. Whiting had relatively small production output but produced exceptional handmade silverware in relatively small quantities. The Company's most famous and important designer was Charles Osborne...

An exceptional, fine and impressive, rare antique George I Scottish sterling silver tazza; part of our Georgian silverware collection. This exceptional antique George I Scottish sterling silver tazza has a plain circular form onto a cylindrical pedestal foot. The surface of the tazza is plain and unembellished apart from the silversmiths centre punch mark. The rim of this antique tazza...

An exceptional, fine and impressive, pair of antique Victorian English sterling silver tazzas/centrepieces; an addition to our continental silverware collection. This exceptional ...

An exceptional, fine and impressive, pair of antique Victorian English sterling silver and glass tazzas/centrepieces; an addition to our antique Victorian silverware collection. These exceptional antique Victorian glass tazzas / centrepieces, with sterling silver mounts, have a circular rounded form onto an ornamental pedestal and domed spreading foot. The surface of each decorative centrepiece features an impressive glass dish embellished with fine cut and acid etched foliate decoration. The centre of each vessel features a hallmarked sterling silver panel, ornamented with engraved decoration reflecting the design to the glass. Each antique glass dish...

Centerpiece with sterling silver base. The base is round and smooth while the bowl has been shaped and fretworked by hand with volutes. A beaded border has been welded to the wavy ed...