Metalware

Lovers in Polished Pewter

Art Nouveau visiting card tray depicting two lovers about to kiss. The girl has long flowing hair and, in typical Art Nouveau style, her locks are reaching out to embrace the young man.  Lovely detail…

WMF Desk Calendar

Little silver plated desk calendar from WMF that can be used year after year. With a stylish Secessionist design and containing all the day and date plaques, the months also showing the appropriate number of days.…

Fairy Card Tray from WMF

Made by WMF around 1905 and sold as a visiting card tray, this is a truly delightful piece of Art Nouveau design.  The floor of the tray itself is simply the surface of a small…

Four-Handled Silver Bowl with Abalone Decor

Stylish silver bowl from the height of the Art Deco era, with a definite Liberty look about it although this particular example is stamped beneath with a retailer’s mark for Bracher & Sydenham of Reading.…

Rare Sterling Silver Africanist Plaque

Unusual and very rare Sterling silver plaque depicting a naked African tribal woman heavily adorned with jewellery. This is an eye-catching figure, modelled in strong relief against a flat hammered background contained within a square border…

Art Nouveau Silver Bowl

Striking Art Nouveau silver bowl made by Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Co. in 1906. Standing on three splayed legs which curve upward and outwards in fluid fashion to form the handles.  Embellished between each handle with…

Swedish Art Deco Bronze Charger

Patinated bronze Art Deco bowl or charger from the Swedish firm of Ystad-Brons dating from c. 1930. With a diameter of 40 cm and depicting in the centre a naked Diana running with a deer…

WMF Fairy Sweet Dish

Art Nouveau silver-plated fairy sweet dish from WMF. Originally sold as a double fruit or sweet dish, with a lovely fluid and typically Art Nouveau design of sinuous stems, leaves and berries together with a…

Kayserzinn Sleeping Venus Pin Tray

Small pewter pin tray, or plate as it is noted in the Kayserzinn reference book.  It is in the shape of an open shell and depicts the nude Venus sleeping, resting her head on one…

Winged Cat Table Centrepiece

Silver-plated table centrepiece featuring a mythological stylised winged cat supporting an ornate glass bowl. Tall and lean, with its long tail pointing upwards, the panther-like creature is proudly sitting bolt upright with its chest puffed…

William Aitken Silver Coupe

A fine three-handled silver coupe, or loving cup, made by William Aitken of Birmingham and hallmarked for 1906.  Raised off a pedestal foot decorated with three equally spaced oval lapis lazuli cabochons. The sides of…

Silver Gothic Revival Toast Rack

Victorian silver Gothic Revival toast rack made by Thomas Smily, showing a London hallmark for 1866. With spaces for six slices, each of the seven bars is shaped in the form of an architectural window…

Art Nouveau Polished Pewter Photo Frame

Pretty Art Nouveau polished pewter photograph frame from WMF dating from around 1906. Comprising a very pleasingly shaped outline with a stylised, typically Art Nouveau openwork design of sinuous interlocking curves together with a detail…

Silver Plated Iced Water Jug

Silver plated and etched glass jug with a fitted glass ice chamber from WMF dating from the early 1900’s. We have seen these before in plain glass but this one has a beautifully detailed etched…

Tea for Two

A really eye-catching “tête-à-tête” tea or coffee  set from Argentor of Vienna. Comprising of a tray with tall handle and two smaller elevated trays for the milk/cream jug and sugar bowl.  The pot has a…

Lady and Snake Card Tray

Art Nouveau visiting card tray form WMF in polished pewter.   A simple but very effective design with the young maiden half submerged in a lily pond, watching the snake at the opposite end as…