Here you can find large antique silver flat tableware; silver monteith bowls, silver punch bowls and silver dishes with covers (cloche), which are large and often part of royal or noble collections. A silver monteith bowl, or glass-cooler, was filled with cold water thereby tempering the glasses and thus making it possible to drink a fresh glass of alcohol. It was never standing directly on the dinner table but rather on a side-table. A silver dish with cover (cloche) held the meal warm until it was served. An antique silver wine-cooler could very well be used today as a champagne cooler or sparkling wine cooler.
The shaped circular dish with moulded border, the conforming cover with acanthus and foliate-clasped berried terminal, marked underneath of dish and outer rim of cover, struck with number '2' to dish and cover, the dish further prick-engraved '?:p:2'...
Neoclassical silver glass cooler - monteith bowl - from the property of Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Made in Augsburg 1804/5 by Gustav Fr. Gerich....
Neoclassical silver glass cooler - monteith bowl - from the property of Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Made in Augsburg 1804/5 by Gustav Fr. Gerich....
This silver punch bowl is a perfect example for the George II period. It was made in London 1724/5 by Richard Bayley. The crest belongs to Sir James Clavering of Axwell, 4th Baronet....
Monteith bowls made of silver are very rare today. Due to the intrinsic value of silver, they were quite quickly melted down, when the need to make money (e.g. during war) was pressing....