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.
The classic-looking, round silver box impresses with its muted design. Any means of elaborate decoration was dispensed with to focus on the medallion of Catherine the Great in the centre of the lid, thereby emphasising its significance....
Silver, gilt. On a recessed stand ring, conical body with smooth, flared lip edge and volute handles. The wall is punched like snakeskin....
Silver-gilt body, left smooth. Conical, hexagonal bowl on a recessed foot with artfully crafted handles on both sides. Small monogram engraving "W.K.B." under the lip....
Cylindrical serpentine body carved with spiral fluting, the screw lid with engraved flowers, foliage and coat of arms, with a double snail handle....
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....
The pair to this silver-gilt toilet casket with facing female medaillion on the cover and the same inventory stamp VIII, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London....
Lobed bowl, silver with scalloped rim, on flaring foot...
This pair of graceful silver boxes presents a very fine object of rococo from Augsburg. The bulging form of the box is through flowing embossed decoration with elegant gadroons adorned....
This set of objects, silver-gilt, originate from a toilette service, made in Augsburg, at the beginning of the eighteenth century....
This so-called tcharka, a round drinking bowl for vodka or brandy was made in Hamburg c. 1670 by the maker Johann Brockmer....
Rare silver screw-top bottle from Transylvania, around 1690...
This round silver partly-gilt drinking bowl stands on a low foot and has twoside- handles. Dated 1664, made in Brig (Switzerland) by Anton Tuffitscher....
This silver gilt drinking bowl was made in Augbsurg (Germany) in the early seventeenth century by the maker Adam Forster. It has a wonderful engraving....
This silver, parcel-gilt two-handled bowl and cover, in German called “Wöchnerinnenschüssel“ has an (art) historical as well as utilitarian and symbolic value. It was made in Nuremberg, second half of the 17th century....
German silver soap box, silver, fully gilt, produced in Augsburg during the Régence period (beginning of the 18th c). Made by Gottlieb Menzel, 1713-7....
A wonderful, fine and in a very good condition object of the hunting culture: a stirrup cup from Clermont Ferrand, France....
The very finely engraved, silver-gilt Régence bowl captivates at first glance with its elegant shape: its spherical body, constricted in the middle, rises above three rolled, graceful volute feet....
The box has an ovular form with six sides, mounted with silver hinges around the rim, which open on one side. The base of the box undercuts to create a natural curvature, on which the box gracefully perches...
.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 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....
Fine octagonal, silver-gilt box on feet designed as claws....
This silver gilt porringer with cover (écuelle) from Augsburg is an excellent example of the Régence style in the 18th century. The maker is Johann Erhard II Heuglin....
Seal box for King Friedrich Wilhelm III...
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 French silver gilt bowl with cover comes from the directoire period – transitional period from the Louis XVI to Empire style. Made in Paris by Hache....
The decoration of the snuff box is faithful to the rococo style. One could think that this enamel box was taken when hunting, due to the animal décor it shows....
The present, silver-gilt German drinking bowl is with inset coins of Polish dukes and earls. The drinking bowl was often used for drinking wine or brandy....
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...
This baroque silver spice-box with two spice compartments and cover on four rocailles feet from Augsburg around 1700 is made by Johann Heinrich Mannlich....
This silver partly-gilt snuff box has a rectangular form and shows typical Rococo ornamentation. Made in Potsdam c. 1770 by Chr. Fr. Müller....