Further interesting antique silver objects of the table culture and also of the everyday life; toilet services or sets for ladies of the high society; travelling necessaires with their silver content dating back to as early as the seventeenth and eighteenth century; cutlery set made of silver and other fascinating cabinet of art and tableware silver collection pieces, can be found here.
This French travelling nécessaire from the end of the 18th century has fittings in vermeil (silver-gilt) from Strasbourg. The case, covered with green leather, is original. Maker: François Daniel Imlin....
The spherical body of the chandelier is completely symmetrical and consists of a pear-shaped, highly oval shape that is constricted at the top and bottom...
The Lamentation theme belongs to the so-called devotional pictures, appeared in German sculpture since c. 1300. This silver Lamentation is made in Augsburg c. 1626 by Abraham II Lotter....
Butter dish, silver, with remains of the original gilding....
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....
Silver gilt Prussian chamberlain key with the initials "FWR" ("Friedrich Wilhelm Rex" most probably for Frederick Wilhelm III of Prussia). Berlin c. 1800....
Salt cellar, silver partly-gilt, adorned with three cityscapes, propably of Nuremberg. Made in Nurembeg 1685/9 by Heinrich Gottfried Anton Hammon....
Rare silver screw-top bottle from Transylvania, around 1690...
This set of objects, silver-gilt, originate from a toilette service, made in Augsburg, at the beginning of the eighteenth century....
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....
These very fine silver objects are snuffers on a snuffer-tray from the Britannia Standard period. The object contains two parts: the tray and the snuffers. The eight-sided form of this rectangular tray has in the interior of the rim a chased line....
This silver, partly-gilt ladle decorated with inset coins (coin ladle) is a rare object from Güstrow of the early 18th century. Maker: Caspar Joh. Livonius....
This fine early German silver-gilt jug with lid was made in Leipzig in 1626/8 in the style of the German auricular decoration by Andreas Kauxdorf the Elder....