Antique English Sterling Silver Cake / Fruit Basket

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...

A fine and impressive antique Edwardian English sterling silver epergne or centerpiece; part of our ornamental silverware collection. ...

A fine antique George V English sterling silver fruit dish; part of our sterling silver collection. This antique George V sterling silver fruit dish has a plain rounded oval form onto an oval spreading foot. The surface of this antique dish is embellished with bright cut engraved husk swag decoration suspended from ribbon designs and incorporating four husk bordered cartouches. Two of the cartouche display an oval floral medallion; the other two remain vacant. The rim of this antique fruit dish...

An exceptional, fine and impressive, large antique Georgian English sterling silver covered serving dish; an addition to our silver dining collect...

Victorian neoclassical sterling silver epergne. Made by Charles Stuart Harris in London in 1895. Central oval frame with pendant leaf garland threaded through fixed rings and support...

Marked: Thomas Pitts, London 1771. Arms: Carson Impaling Parker.

Solid sterling silver oval centerpiece with fruits and leaves composition made by chiseled silver sheet. The fruit and leaves have been modeled by hand from the silver plate, shaped ...

An exquisite top-quality Edwardian sterling silver comport with an Art Nouveau design seen in the organically shaped supports from the base to the bowl. The bowl is beautifully pi...