All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Continental : Pre 1900 item #1456085 (stock #BW129)
Pair of magnificent French Neoclassical 950 silver 7-light candelabra, ca 1880. Each: Six leaf-wrapped s-scroll arms each terminating in single leaf-and-dart socket, mounted to central socket on shaft set in petal mount on knopped and tapering shaft; raised foot on 3 bracket-mounted feet. Imbricated leaf wreaths and garlands, fluting, beading, and pendant flowers...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Sterling : Pre 1900 item #1395405 (stock #BS176)
Rare mixed metal pitcher with lots of bugs. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York, ca 1880. Globular with drum-form neck, small lip spout, and c-scroll handle. Modish insects—dragon fly, grasshopper, and butterfly—creep and dart among fluid and interlaced grass stalks applied to hand-hammered sterling silver ground heightened with floral engraving and copper inlay. A superb integration of Japonesque and Craftsman. Interlaced script monogram engraved to underside...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Sterling : Pre 1800 item #1475735 (stock #BX835)
George III sterling silver epergne. Made by Thomas Pitts in London in 1774.

Reeded and beaded oval frame; at base swags threaded through fixed rings with pendant oval vase medallions, overlapping four split-mounted leafing supports terminating in pierced and scrolled oval feet...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Continental : Pre 1920 item #1469017 (stock #BX351)
Belle Epoque Rococo soup tureen on stand. Made by Tetard Frères in Paris, ca 1910. Ovoid bowl with tapering sides and curved bottom with fluted and turned-down leaf handles. Sides have projecting volute scrolls inset with leaves. Leaves stippled and irregular. Sides have curvilinear panels applied with leaf and berry garlands with central branches forming wreaths. Raised oval foot...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Sterling : Pre 1900 item #1441803 (stock #BU336)
Rare Japonesque mixed metal tray. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York, ca 1878. Square with curved sides and straight edges. Two birds soar and glide. One is viewed from below and the other from above (that is, from bird’s eye). An original and jokey design incorporating the exotic flattened Japanese perspective. Feathers are gold, and beaks, eyes, and wispy, dangly talons are copper. Crescent frame engraved with calligraphy-style presentation dated 1879. Ground hand hammered...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Sterling : Pre 1800 item #1481307 (stock #BY280)
Set of 12 George III sterling silver dinner plates. Made by Thomas Heming in London in 1780. Each: Round well and serpentined and gadrooned rim. Shoulder engraved with royal badge between the monogram GR (that is, G for George and R for Rex).

Traditional Georgian with an impressive provenance. The plates were made by the king’s principal goldsmith for the royal household in a pattern that had been adopted in the previous reign by George III’s grandfather George II...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Sterling : Pre 1900 item #1436681 (stock #BM963)
Japonesque sterling silver and mixed metal water pitcher. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York, ca 1885. Globular body, straight neck, and c-scroll handle. Allover honeycomb hand hammering. Applied flowers, leafing tendrils, and butterflies. A restrained design with graceful plant and insect motifs. Fully marked including pattern no. 3077 and phrase “Sterling silver and other metals”. Very good condition.

Dimensions: H 7 3/8 x W 8 x D 5 1/2 in. Weight: 25 troy ounces. #BM963

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Sterling : Pre 1900 item #1445941 (stock #BV255)
Market-fresh Japonesque mixed metal and sterling silver water pitcher. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York, ca 1879. Gently curved bowl and inset undulating rim with wide lip spout and integral scroll handle with tendril mounts that wraparound mouth rim. Handle has lily pad “cap” with crouching figure of frog. Applied leaves with copper-inlaid veins with one overlapping bold and scrolling interlaced acid-etched monogram on neck...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Sterling : Pre 1910 item #1488099 (stock #BZ265)
Victorian sterling silver wine cooler. Deep ovoid bowl on raised foot. Leaf-capped dolphin scroll-bracket side handles. Bead-and-reel and leaf-and-dart borders. Chased frieze depicting garland-entwined, barefooted, long-tressed nymphs, their loose drapery suggestive of overflowing abundance. Fin-de-siecle Classicism for a new age.

This piece was two or three years old when it was exhibited at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

Fully marked including maker’s stamp, patte...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Asia Trade : Pre 1910 item #1477221 (stock #BY184)
Dramatic Japanese Meiji silver centerpiece vase, ca 1900. Globular bowl with tall cylindrical neck and flared mouth; raised and inset foot. Bowl has wraparound roiling waves with claw-like spume in relief and a horned and scaley dragon, baring teeth and gripping the sides with talons. Visible hand hammering. Signed on bottom. Very good condition.

Large dimensions: H 20.5 x W 15 x D 14 in. Weight: 116.5 troy ounces. #BY184

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Sterling : Pre 1900 item #1418610 (stock #BR648)
Chrysanthemum sterling silver dinner set. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York, ca 1890.

This set comprises 145 pieces (dimensions in inches): Forks: 24 dinner forks (7 1/2), 12 salad/terrapin forks (6 3/8), 12 seafood forks (6), and 12 ice cream forks (5 5/8); Spoons: 10 teaspoons (5 5/8), 12 round gumbo spoons (7 3/4), 12 bouillon spoons (5 1/2), 10 grapefruit spoons (5 3/4), and 6 tablespoons (8 1/4); Knives: 12 dinner knives (10 1/8), 12 lunch knives (8 7/8), and 11 butter spreaders (5 3/4).

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Sterling : Pre 1910 item #1398314 (stock #BQ932)
Turn-of-the-century sterling silver dessert set with world’s fair exhibition history. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York. This set comprises 12 plates and 2 compotes. Each plate: Hexagonal well bordered by bead-and-reel surrounded by applied and open rim in relief comprising fruit baskets joined by rinceaux scrolls and garland. Each compote: Same with raised and gadrooned foot on three leaf-mounted volute scrolls.

Fully marked. Both compotes have pattern no. 14175 of which one with director...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Sterling : Pre 1910 item #1488394 (stock #BZ155)
Fabulous Chrysanthemum sterling silver coffee and tea set. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York. This set comprises 5 pieces: coffeepot, teapot, creamer, sugar, and waste bowl.

In the celebrated pattern that is an American interpretation of a Japanese motif. To Baroque forms are applied a profusion of climbing, wrapping, and bunching flower heads. Chrysanthemum was introduced in 1880 and this set dates from the first quarter century of its production.

All pieces fully marked including maker’...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Continental : Pre 1900 item #1471186 (stock #BX487)
Two pairs of German 800 silver 2-light candelabra. Made by M. H. Wilkens & Söhne in Germany, ca 1890. Each: tapering pillar on raised foot with spread c-scroll supports. Garland-entwined figure mounted to pillar top. On two, a bosomy, drapery-clad caryatid; on other two, a naked atlantes. Soft youthful flesh that contrasts with the statuary pillar. Each figure holds a stem with two open and scrolled branches terminating in single socket. Fluid and dynamic Art Nouveau mixed with frothy Rococo. ...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Sterling : Pre 1837 VR item #1480736 (stock #BY338)
Pair of George III sterling silver covered vegetable dishes. Made by Paul Storr in London in 1805. Each: Tapering bowl with gadrooned rim. Cover domed with lobed shoulder; cast coronet finial mounted to round disc with beaded border.

Engraved coat of arms of Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire (1760–1816), an early Empire allrounder, whose peripatetic career included stints as the governor of Madras, postmaster general, and chief secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Because he...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Pre 1800 item #1486180 (stock #RNT-811)
Antique English Silver Tea Caddy and Sugar Bowl in Shagreen Case by Samuel Taylor, London, 1758-59. The covered sugar bowl and tea canister were crafted by the prominent tea canister specialist and renowned Georgian silversmith Samuel Taylor. The box fittings are by another silversmith, probably J. Wakelin (one hinge stamped IW). The caddy and sugarbowl are pyriform, the sides and covers repousse and chased with flowers and scrolls, each on a cast circular foot similarly decorated and with f...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Sterling : Pre 1800 item #1482275 (stock #BY491)
Set of 4 George III cast sterling silver candlesticks. Made by Richard Morson & Benjamin Stephenson in London in 1771. Each: Spool socket with detachable bobeche mounted to knopped and twisted shaft on raised and serpentine foot. Fluted and imbricated shell ornament. Gadrooning. Coronet over letter H engraved on bobeche and socket. Georgian Rococo design best viewed by flickering flame. Fully marked. Very good condition with nice patina.

Dimensions: H 11 1/4 x D 6 1/4 in. Total weight: 93.7 tr...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Sterling : Pre 1800 item #1478937 (stock #BY116)
Set of 4 George II cast sterling silver candlesticks. Made by James Morison in London in 1756. Each: Spool socket with detachable bobeche and round bowl on knopped and flanged half-fluted shaft; raised foot on curvilinear six-shell base with engraved coat of arms. Stylish midcentury Georgian. Fully marked. Very good condition with nice patina.

Dimensions: H 9 1/4 x W 5 1/8 x D 4 1/8 in. Total weight: 64 troy ounces. #BY116