BOXES AND BOWLS

Antique silver boxes have various uses. Traditionally, they had different purposes: as sugar boxes, powder boxes, tea-caddys (tea-box), spice boxes, jewelry boxes, pill boxes along with snuff boxes. 

Antique silver bowls often have a flat form and with the purpose of testing wine. Another common use for antique silver bowls was for hunting, these being the so-called stirrup-cups or hunting-cups. Antique silver stirrup-cups can also be found here.

.This tea caddy is a sober and elegant object, left completely smooth. The body is rectangular in shape and the sliding lid (intended for refilling) is flat. Possibly originally part of a travel set...

This George III tea caddy, silver, has an oval shape and is very fine and detailed engraved with flowers and garlands. Made in London 1786/ by John Harris II....

This tea caddy is a simple and elegant object of French silver. It was made in 1783/4 in Paris by the silversmith Claude-Isaac Bourgoin....

In the early eighteenth century, French snuff boxes (tabatières) made of gold and enamel or of other precious materials, were quite fashionably in Germany. Boxes, namely snuff boxes, which are decorated like this present one, are usually attributed to the workshop of the Huguenot Pierre...

These Queen Anne, square silver boxes are octagonal divided by narrow and long sides. The only decoration of these exceptionally attractive boxes is the fine gadroons (ornamental surface or edges) on foot and lid....