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Tableware For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 1990s
English Pepper Shaker in Silver, Late 19th C
Located in Copenhagen, DK
English pepper shaker in silver, late 19th century. From large private collection.
Large selection in stock.
Stamped.
In very good condition. Minor wear.
Measures: 7.5 x 4.5 cm.
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Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Tableware
Materials
Silver
English Pepper Shaker in Silver, Late 19th Century
Located in Copenhagen, DK
English pepper shaker in silver, late 19th century. From large private collection.
Large selection in stock.
Stamped.
In very good condition. Minor wear.
Measures: 6.5 x 4.5 cm.
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Category
Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Tableware
Materials
Silver
Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Coffee Pot
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver coffee pot; an addition to our silver teaware collection
This exceptional antique sterling silver coffee pot has a plain tapering cylindrical form with a moulded base, all in the Cassic English George I style.
The plain body of this Victorian silver coffee pot...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Tableware
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
19th Century Napoleon III Cave / Liqueur
Located in Tarry Town, NY
19th Century Napoleon III engraved glass and gilt bronze metal cave a liqueur. The cave feature an hinged lobed lid opening to hinged front panels and a removable stand centered by f...
Category
1820s French Antique Tableware
Materials
Bronze
Kings / Queens English Sterling Silver Flatware Set Service 82 Pieces Dinner
Located in Big Bend, WI
Early assembled Dinner Size Kings / Queens classic shell motif English sterling silver and silverplate (as notated) Flatware set, 82 pieces. This set includes:
12 Dinner Knives, 9 3...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Tableware
Materials
Sterling Silver
Aetna Works Mother of Pearl and Sterling Silver Collar Fruit Knives, Set of Four
Located in Philadelphia, PA
From Landers, Frary & Clark – Aetna Works, founded in New Britain, Connecticut, 1866, a set of four fruit and cheese knives.
Mother of pearl handles are joined to plated blades b...
Category
19th Century American Aesthetic Movement Antique Tableware
Materials
Silver Plate, Sterling Silver
91 Piece Sterling Silver Flatware from Paris
Located in Vista, CA
Circa 1860, Paris, France. This 99-piece solid silver set features elegant craftsmanship with crest detail on each utensil.
Measurement is for the knife.
Category
1860s French French Provincial Antique Tableware
Materials
Sterling Silver, Silver
Arabesque AKA Monroe by Wendt Sterling Silver Flatware Set Service 74 Pieces
By John Wendt
Located in Big Bend, WI
Exceedingly rare Moresque by Wendt sterling silver Flatware set - 74 pieces, circa 1873. This pattern features a dimensional gothic design on a textured background, with a central sh...
Category
19th Century Antique Tableware
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Victorian Novelty Pepper in the Style of a Champagne Cork
Located in Braintree, GB
Antique Victorian novelty pepper in the style of a champagne cork.
Maker: Henry Wilkinson & Co
Made in United Kingdom, Sheffield, 1879
Fully hallmarked.
Approx. dimensions:
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Category
1870s British Antique Tableware
Materials
Silver
Victorian Sterling Silver Cream Jug and Sugar Bowl
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver cream jug and sugar bowl; an addition to our silver teaware co...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Tableware
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Rare Antique Sterling Silver Pair of Graduated Wine Coasters, Robert Garrard
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1842 & 1844 by Robert Garrard II, this very rare pair of graduated Antique Sterling Silver Wine Coasters, feature pierced sides, silver bases, and engraved co...
Category
1840s English Victorian Antique Tableware
Materials
Sterling Silver
Paloma Picasso for Villeroy & Boch, "My Way" Porcelain Sugar / Cream Set
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Paloma Picasso for Villeroy & Boch. "My way" porcelain sugar / cream set with serving tray. Colorful decoration. 1990s.
The tray measures: 34.5 x 23.5...
Category
1990s German Tableware
Materials
Porcelain
Victorian Silver Gilt Swing Handle Basket
Located in Braintree, GB
Antique Victorian silver gilt swing handle basket with engraved grape leaves and floral motifs.
Maker: Thomas Smily
Made in England, London, 1873...
Category
1870s British Victorian Antique Tableware
Materials
Silver
19th Century Grand Tour Antique Handmade Bronze Mortar with Pestle
Located in Roma, IT
19th-century grand tour antique handmade bronze mortar with pestle. This fantastic piece has an original patina.
The pestle is 9.05 inc high wit...
Category
Mid-19th Century European Grand Tour Antique Tableware
Materials
Bronze
Set of 4 Dutch silver serving spoons, Van Kempen & Zn, 1887-1894
By Van Kempen
Located in Delft, NL
Set of Dutch silver serving spoons, Van Kempen & Zn, 1887-1894
Set of 4 Dutch silver serving spoons from the late 19th century.
2 Vegetable spoons, a rice spoon...
Category
19th Century Antique Tableware
Materials
Silver
Dozen Wedgwood Creamware Dinner Plates Thistle Design Made, Circa 1880
By Wedgwood
Located in Katonah, NY
We are pleased to offer this set of a dozen Wedgwood creamware dinner plates with a thistle design.
These English creamware dinner plates date to the late 19th century, circa 1880.
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Category
1880s English Aesthetic Movement Antique Tableware
Materials
Creamware
Biedermeier Early 19th Century Nuremberg 13 Lot Silver Spoon Set of 6 in Case
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This is a 19th C. 1820s Nuremberg, Germany set of six spoons, in a old case (not original, but looks great for the Spoons).
All spoons are Hallmarked silver ...
Category
Early 19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Antique Tableware
Materials
Silver
Arabesque by Wendt Sterling Silver Flatware Set for 12 Service 52 Pieces Rare
By John Wendt
Located in Big Bend, WI
Rare Moresque by Wendt sterling silver flatware set - 52 pieces, circa 1873. This set includes:
12 Dinner knives, Ebony handles, 9 3/4"
12 Dinner Forks, 7 1/4"
12 Luncheon/Desert Forks...
Category
19th Century Antique Tableware
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Water Jug
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive, antique Victorian sterling silver water jug; part of our antique dining silverware collection.
This e...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Tableware
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Paris Plate, 19th Century French Porcelain
Located in Lantau, HK
Rare and beautiful hand painted porcelain, marked for "Denuelle"
The plate depicts a bell flower in the center with a flower wreath on the border delicately painted with vibrant colo...
Category
19th Century French Antique Tableware
Materials
Porcelain
French Carved Dough Bowl
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
This is a French dough bowl, a wooden vessel used to mix bread dough. These bowls were found in every home and were typically carved from a large pie...
Category
19th Century French Other Antique Tableware
Materials
Wood
Antique Gustafsberg Chocolate Jug in Porcelain with a Lion on the Handle
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Antique Gustafsberg chocolate jug in porcelain modelled with a lion on the handle.
Hand-painted flowers and gold decoration. Late 19th century.
Measures: 24 x 16 cm.
In good orig...
Category
Late 19th Century Swedish Antique Tableware
Materials
Porcelain
Fiddle by Dub Austrian 812 Silver Flatware Set Service 66 Pieces C. 1863 Crown
Located in Big Bend, WI
Fiddle by Thomas Dub, Vienna Austria 1812 silver flatware set with hallmark for the year 1863 - 66 pieces. This set includes:
12 Large dinner knives w/steel blades, 10 3/4"
12 Large dinner forks, 8 1/4"
11 Salad forks w/steel tines, 9"
9 Teaspoons, 6 1/2"
7 Large dinner spoons, 8 3/4"
1 Gravy ladle, 9"
2 Large vegetable serving spoons...
Category
19th Century European Antique Tableware
Materials
Silver
1810s Austro-Hungarian Silver Beaker
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Austro-Hungarian silver beaker, an addition to our continental silverware collection.
This exceptional antique Austro-Hungarian silver beaker has a plain cylindrical, tapering form.
The upper portion of the beaker is encompassed with two bands of tooled decoration above the contemporary engraved initial 'V' beneath a coronet to one side.
The base of this Austrian silver beaker retains the silversmith's center punch mark.
The hallmarks to this impressive antique beaker...
Category
1810s Hungarian Antique Tableware
Materials
Silver
Antique Sheraton Revival Oval Satinwood Inlaid Serving Tray
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique Sheraton revival oval satinwood inlaid serving tray having beautiful intricate inlay of scrolls, foliage and petals with an inlaid conch sh...
Category
19th Century English Antique Tableware
Materials
Satinwood
Pr. of Victorian Silverplate, by Edward Ratherham of Birmingham, c1845
Located in valatie, NY
Victorian silver-plate,possibly by Edward Ratherham of Birmingham, who is recorded in 1847. The size is unusual, they will take a magnum or large decanter...
Category
1840s English Rococo Antique Tableware
Materials
Silver Plate
Emile Gallé for St. Clement, Nancy, Six Antique Plates in Hand-Painted Faience
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Emile Gallé for St. Clement, Nancy. Six antique plates in hand-painted faience.
1870s / 80s.
Measure: Diameter: 23.5 cm.
In excellent condition.
Signed.
Category
1870s French Antique Tableware
Materials
Faience
Paloma Picasso for Villeroy & Boch, "My Way" Coffee Pot in Porcelain
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Paloma Picasso for Villeroy & Boch. "My way" coffee pot in porcelain.
Colorful decoration. 1990s.
Measures: 23 x 18 cm.
In excellent condition.
Stamped.
Category
1990s German Tableware
Materials
Porcelain
Buttercup by Gorham Sterling Silver Flatware Set 12 Service Lunch 48 Pieces
Located in Big Bend, WI
Buttercup by Gorham sterling silver flatware set - 48 pieces. This set includes:
12 knives, 8 7/8".
12 forks, 7".
12 ...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Tableware
Materials
Sterling Silver
George III Antique Sterling Silver Wine Funnel - London 1805 William Abdy II
By William Abdy II
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1805 by William Abdy II, this handsome, George III, Antique Sterling Silver Wine Funnel, is plain in design with reed detailing, a...
Category
Early 1800s English George III Antique Tableware
Materials
Sterling Silver
Italian Bronze Mortar and Pestle, Original Patina, Italy, Pharmacy or Herbalist
Located in Roma, IT
Antique bronze mortar. Handmade with pestle. Original patina
Mortar from pharmacy or herbalist.
Italian bronze mortar and pestle
Measure: Pe...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Other Antique Tableware
Materials
Bronze
Set of 11 Antique English Victorian Dinner Knives with Agate Handles
Located in New York, NY
Set of 11 English Victorian dinner knives, ca 1880. Each: Tapering and chamfered rectilinear agate handle with bead terminal and silver-plated blade. Aga...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Tableware
Materials
Agate, Silver Plate
Pair of English Wedgewood Figural & Foliage Silver Plate Biscuit Barrels, C 1870
Located in Hollywood, SC
Pair of English Wedgewood figural and foliage silver plate biscuit barrels with original folding handles and removable lids. 19th Century.
Category
1870s English Victorian Antique Tableware
Materials
Silver Plate
English Regency Classical Sterling Silver & Agate Fruit Set for 12
Located in New York, NY
George IV sterling silver and agate fruit set for 12 with 24 pieces. Made by Francis Higgins in London in 1833. This set comprises 12 forks and 12 knives. Tapering rectilinear half-f...
Category
1830s English Regency Antique Tableware
Materials
Agate, Sterling Silver
John Polhamus for Tiffany & Co. Sterling Silver Spoon and Knife, J*P
Located in Washington Depot, CT
John Polhamus for Tiffany & Co. Sterling silver spoon and knife.
Marked: TIFFANY & CO., J*P, STERLING.
Engraved: Minnie.
Flat solid knife: 7 1/2". 49g, 31.5dwt.
Spoon: 6 7/8". 43...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Antique Tableware
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pair of Early 19th Century Old Sheffield Plate Wine Coasters, U.K. Circa 1830
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A very handsome pair of re-plated 'Old Sheffield Plate' wine or decanter slides / coasters, both showing rims decorated with shell & scroll cast motifs, rising from turned wood bases...
Category
Mid-19th Century British Georgian Antique Tableware
Materials
Silver Plate
Italian Renaissance Revival Enamel 3-Piece Serving Set
Located in New York, NY
Italian Renaissance-Revival 3-piece gilt brass and enamel serving set, ca. 1860. This set comprises spoon, fork, and knife.
The handles are straight and tapering with knops and en...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Antique Tableware
Materials
Brass, Enamel
Extensive Herend Fortuna Dinner Service Painted with Butterflies and Flowers
By Herend
Located in Boston, MA
This is a magnificent Herend Fortuna dinner service with blue paintings of butterflies and flowers on a white background with 24 karat gold accents. This 59 piece set includes 11 large dinner plates, diameter-11 inches, 12 wide rim soup bowls, diameter-9 5/8 inches, 12 luncheons or dessert plates, diameter-8.25 inches, 12 bread or appetizer plates, diameter-6.25 inches and 12 cereal bowls, diameter-6 5/8 inches. This set has hardly ever been used. At least half of its pieces are still in the original bubble wrap. It is an outstanding and classic set on which you can serve delicious meals for your special friends and family. Just imagine how beautiful your table setting will be.
Price of Herend dinner service...
Category
1990s Hungarian Romantic Tableware
Materials
Porcelain
Charming Novelty Sterling Silver 'Emperor Penguin' Condiment Set, London, 1996
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1996 by Meiling & Gartrell, this wonderful, and very charming, sterling silver condiment set, is modelled to resemble Emperor Penguins...
Category
1990s English Modern Tableware
Materials
Sterling Silver
Majolica Cheese Dome
By George Jones
Located in New York, NY
The large size George Jones Majolica cheese bell. Modeled in a basketweave pattern with cherry blossom flowers and woven natural vine handle. On a vibrant ...
Category
19th Century English Antique Tableware
Materials
Majolica
Antique Albert Coles Coin Silver Fork Spoon Knife Set with Box
By Albert Coles
Located in Washington Depot, CT
Antique coin silver knife, fork and spoon set by Albert Coles.
Engraved "Fanny"
Beautiful grapes and leaf pattern by Albert Coles, a prolific and influential silver manufacture...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Antique Tableware
Materials
Silver
Repousse by Kirk Sterling Silver Flatware Set for 12 Service 134 Pieces Dinner
Located in Big Bend, WI
This pattern was named after the art of repoussé (the process of embossing metal from the back by hammering), originally used in European silversmithing. The Repousse pattern, first ...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Tableware
Materials
Sterling Silver
French, Early 19th Century, Empire Style, Pierced Porcelain Basket
Located in Lantau, HK
French Empire Paris porcelain gilt reticulated centerpiece basket.
Ideal decorative centerpiece to hold flowers or fruits on a dining table
Dimensions: 21.5cm (H) x 21cm (D).
Category
19th Century French Antique Tableware
Materials
Porcelain
Empire by Whiting Sterling Silver Flatware Set for 12 Service 53 Pieces Dinner
Located in Big Bend, WI
Early rare Empire by Whiting, circa 1892, sterling silver flatware set - 53 pieces. This set includes:
12 large banquet size knives, 10 5/8"
12 dinner s...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Tableware
Materials
Sterling Silver
19th Century English Imari Porcelain Compote
Located in Pearland, TX
A lovely antique 19th-century English porcelain compote decorated in the classic Imari style and colors. Maker's mark on reverse. It would be beautiful for display or for used for se...
Category
19th Century English Antique Tableware
Materials
Porcelain
Antique English Gilt Sterling Silver & Agate Fruit Set for 12
Located in New York, NY
English gilt sterling silver & agate fruit set. This set comprises 24 pieces: 12 knives and 12 forks. Each: Tapering and chamfered rectilinear handle in mottled and translucent agate. Colors vary. Gilt sterling silver blades with 2 armorials (knives) and 4-tined shanks with 1 armorial (forks); stippled and scrolled mount. In stained-wood case with fitted velvet.
Fully marked with London assay stamp. Eight knives have William Theobalds maker’s stamp and 1833 date letter. Four knives have William Theobalds & Robert Atkinson...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Georgian Antique Tableware
Materials
Agate, Stone, Sterling Silver
Rare Flatware Cutlery by Bob Patino for Berndorf
Located in Vienna, AT
Designed by famous New York designer’s duo Bob Patino (1942-1998) and Vincente Wolf in 1991 for Berndorf, Austria. Beautiful and hard-to-find cutlery made o...
Category
1990s Austrian Modern Tableware
Materials
Stainless Steel
Old Masters by Gorham Sterling Silver Flatware Service Lg Dinner Set Multi motif
By Gorham
Located in Big Bend, WI
Designed by renowned sculptor Antoine Heller, pieces portray different artists is exceptionally fine detail. The Old Masters pattern is the rarest of the Antoine Heller patterns!
Heller worked as a die chaser - he hand finished the molds used in die stamping silver. Due to the technical difficulty and great detail of the work - and the great expense of making dies for stamping - this was traditionally the highest paying craft position in a silver (or metal) shop. Heller went on to design silver at Gorham and left to work for Tiffany, creating the Olympian pattern. After that he studied at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, where Gorham lured him back to work in Providence, where he created some of the most exquisitely die stamped patterns ever made including: Old Masters, Versailles, Cluny, St. Cloud and Mythologique. (See Gorham Silver by Charles Carpenter and the Gorham Flatware 1888 Catalog Reprint.)
Heller served as the Gorham company’s chief designer until his death in 1904, and led the company in adopting the academic style that harkened back to ancient Greek and Roman traditions. He was especially known for the precision with which he executed the steel dies that would be used for the drop presses. This talent was remarked upon with envy by several French critics and journals including La France, who lauded, “M. Heller is at once an inspired artist, having the gift of style, of grace and of elegance; and a workman possessing a skill without a rival—a hand for which no obstacle exists…”
Superb multi-motif figural Old Masters by Gorham, circa 1885, sterling silver Flatware set - 122 pieces. This highly sought after and incredibly scarce pattern features busts of the masters of art, in an exquisite finely detailed sculptural high-relief. This set has English hallmarks. It was over stamped (and Gorham marks removed) - the English hallmarks are for Sheffield England by Walker & Hall, with date mark for the year 1934.
This service includes:
8 Dinner Knives, 9 3/8"
8 Dinner Forks, 7 3/8" - Correggio
8 Luncheon Knives, 8 3/8" - Karel Dujardin...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Tableware
Materials
Sterling Silver
Renaissance by Dominick and Haff Sterling Silver Flatware Set Service 84 Pcs Din
Located in Big Bend, WI
Exceptional Renaissance by Dominick and Haff flatware set, 84 pieces. This scarce figural pattern features a Renaissance Man's face on the handle and on the back of the soon bowl - in fine detail. This set includes:
12 Dinner Size Knives, 9 3/4"
12 Dinner Size Forks, 7 3/4"
12 Luncheon Knives, 8 1/2"
12 Luncheon Forks, 7"
12 Teaspoons, 6"
12 Place Soup Spoons, 7"
12 Large Dinner Spoons, 8 1/4"
Includes fitted vintage storage chest...
Category
19th Century Antique Tableware
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Sterling Silver Fiddle Pattern Sauce Ladles
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive set of three antique George IV Scottish Provincial sterling silver fiddle pattern sauce ladles, an addition to our silver flatware collection.
These exceptional antique George IV Scottish Provincial silver sauce ladles, in sterling standard, have been crafted in the fiddle pattern.
The anterior surface of the handle of each antique silver ladle is embellished with a contemporary bright cut engraved crests of a hawk ringed...
Category
1820s Scottish Antique Tableware
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Antique Sterling Silver Bachelor Tea Pot by John Septimus Beresford, 1881
Located in Braintree, GB
An Antique late Victorian sterling silver bachelor teapot with engravings inspired by David Teniers. David Teniers was a Dutch Baroque painter (1610-1690). He was an innovator in a wide range of genres. Teniers is particularly known for developing the peasant genre and the tavern scene. Which is exactly what is depicted with rich, sharp and repousse engravings on this teapot, the scenery includes, a violin player, people drinking...
Category
1880s British Late Victorian Antique Tableware
Materials
Sterling Silver
Five Antique Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Plates, Late 19th C
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Five antique Royal Copenhagen porcelain plates with hand-painted flowers, insects and a gold border.
Late 19th century.
Diameter:...
Category
Late 19th Century Danish Antique Tableware
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century French Toleware Painted Tray
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
French hand painted toleware tray of the Napoleon the III era, circa 1850's. The hand-painted French metal tray is decorated with flowers and leaves o...
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Tableware
Materials
Metal
Florentine by Wendt Sterling Silver Flatware Set 12 Service 72 Pcs in Box Rare
By John Wendt
Located in Big Bend, WI
Rare Florentine by Wendt circa 1870 sterling silver Flatware set in fitted box - 72 pieces. This Moorish/Persian style features a background with a complex design of foliage-like scr...
Category
19th Century Antique Tableware
Materials
Sterling Silver
Victorian 1879 Sterling Silver Novelty Pepper Shaker
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A fine and impressive, unusual antique Victorian English sterling silver novelty pepper shaker; an addition to our diverse silverware collection.
This fine antique Victorian sterling silver novelty pepper has a plain ovoid shaped form.
The body of the pepper is embellished with impressive chased decoration depicting a cracked egg shell with a boy’s face and hands to the anterior surface and his feet and buttocks to the reverse.
The body has pierced 'pepper' holes in a hexagram formation to the upper portion.
This pepper retains the original fully hallmarked screw fit weighted base; which when unscrewed provides access to permit the pot to be filled.
This novelty pepper is a fine example of its type.
Dimensions
Height 5.3 cm / 2.1"
Diameter of body 3.7 cm / 1.4"
Weight
An accurate weight of silver cannot be provided as this pepper has a weighted base
Condition
This antique pepper...
Category
1870s English Victorian Antique Tableware
Materials
Sterling Silver
19th Century English Coromandle Canteen Service by Walker & Hall
Located in Dublin, IE
An exquisite 19th century Coromandle canteen service by Walker & Hall. Of rectangular form fitted with recessed brass side handles, and twin panel doors enclosing a fitted interior with four shallow drawers retaining a Hanoverian rat-tail service comprising: 18 dessert forks, 4 knife rests, 18 table forks, 22 teaspoons, 2 egg spoons, a sugar spoon and butter knife, 18 dessert spoons, 3 salt spoons, 3 pickle forks, bone handle table knives and carving set, a soup ladle, 2 serving spoons, 2 fish carvers, 12 tablespoons, sugar nips and sauce ladles.
Circa 1870
English
Key is present and lock is in working order
Measures: H: 12 1/4 in / 31 cm ; W: 21 1/2 in / 55 cm ; D: 16 3/4 in / 42.5 cm
Footnote:
The business was established in Sheffield in 1845 by George Walker...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Tableware
Materials
Silver Plate
German Silver Fish Cutlery from Wilkens & Sohne, Bremen, 1886-1888
Located in Delft, NL
A silver fish cutlery from Wilkens & Sohne, Bremen.
A 6 person fish cutlery made by Martin Heinrich Wilkens, since 1810, Bremen Germany.
The s...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Tableware
Materials
Silver
Art Nouveau Majolica Oval Asparagus Dish Manufactured by Orchies France
By Orchies
Located in Paris, FR
This 19th century Majolica asparagus hand-painted plate was made in France. Decorated in the middle with asparagus in barbotine - slip with yellow shell pattern on the lip and art no...
Category
19th Century French Antique Tableware
Materials
Majolica
Antique and Vintage Tableware
While it isn’t always top of mind for some, antique and vintage tableware can enhance even the most informal meal. It has been an intimate part of how we’ve interacted with our food for millennia.
Tableware has played a basic but important role in everyday life. Ancient Egyptians used spoons (which are classified as flatware) made of ivory and wood, while Greeks and Romans, who gathered for banquets involving big meals and entertainment, ate with forks and knives. At the beginning of the 17th century, however, forks were still uncommon in American homes. Over time, tableware has thankfully evolved and today includes increasingly valuable implements.
Tableware refers to the tools people use to set the table, including serving pieces, dinner plates and more. It encompasses everything from the intricate and elaborate to the austere and functional, yet are all what industrial product designer Jasper Morrison might call “Super Normal” — anonymous objects that are too useful to be considered banal.
There are four general categories of tableware — serveware, dinnerware, drinkware and, lastly, flatware, which is commonly referred to as silverware or cutlery. Serveware includes serving bowls, platters, gravy boats, casserole pans and ladles. Most tableware is practical, but it can also be decorative. And decorative objects count as tableware too. Even though they don’t fit squarely into one of the four categories, vases, statues and floral arrangements are traditional centerpieces.
Drinkware appropriately refers to the vessels we use for our beverages — mugs, cups and glasses. There is a good deal of variety that falls under this broad term. For example, your cheerful home bar or mid-century modern bar cart might be outfitted with a full range of vintage barware, which might include pilsner glasses and tumblers. Specialty cocktails are often served in these custom glasses, but they’re still a type of drinkware.
Every meal should be special — even if you’re using earthenware or stoneware for a casual lunch — but perhaps you’re hosting a dinner party to mark a specific event. The right high-quality tableware can bring a touch of luxury to your cuisine. Young couples, for example, traditionally add “fine china,” or porcelain, to their wedding registry as a commemoration of their union and likely wouldn’t turn down exquisite silver made by Tiffany & Co. or Georg Jensen.
It’s important to remember, however, that when you’re setting the dining room table to have fun with it. Just as you might mix and match your dining chairs, don’t be afraid to mix new and old or high and low with your tableware. On 1stDibs, find an extraordinary range of vintage and antique tableware to help elevate your meal as well as the mood and atmosphere of your entire dining room.
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