PLATES/UNDERPLATES

Antique silver plates can be used as serving or dinner plates. Very often, plates are decorated with a coat of arms (from earlier proprietors) or with monograms. In their actual form – with a deep well in the middle –  plates have been used in Europe since the sixteenth century, originally only by aristocrats. Later, silver plates became an important part of the dinner service of private and upscale households.

COURTLY AND NOBLE SILVER PLATES/UNDERPLATES

The lips of the silver plates are flat, curved and adorned with a raised laurel band. On the underside: engraved coat of arms of the House of Savoy, marks. Augsburg 1802-3, Gustav Friedrich Gerich....

Set of eighteen silver dinner-plates made in Augsburg, mid-eighteenth century. The only decoration on the smooth plate is the ten Passignano, curved, profiled roseleaf edge, with an ornately engraved coat of arms for Pierre-Alfred de Bardon, Marquis de Segonzac from France, and his wife Erlanger...

ANTIQUE SILVER PLATES/UNDERPLATES

The lips of the silver plates are flat, curved and adorned with a raised laurel band. On the underside: engraved coat of arms of the House of Savoy, marks. Augsburg 1802-3, Gustav Friedrich Gerich....

The present round, antique silver plate is an excellent object of English silver of the late 17th century. Very strict and timeless, minimalistic design....

Set of eighteen silver dinner-plates made in Augsburg, mid-eighteenth century. The only decoration on the smooth plate is the ten Passignano, curved, profiled roseleaf edge, with an ornately engraved coat of arms for Pierre-Alfred de Bardon, Marquis de Segonzac from France, and his wife Erlanger...