This is a beautiful Austrian silver, oval shaped box with lovely enamel decoration. The hinged, lid has a painted scene of a wooded landscape with a lake and a tree in the foreground. This scene is set against a white enamel background with engine turned decoration that is repeated on the sides. The sterling silver border of the lid has delicate swags, and a basket-weave motif. The bottom of the box has an engine turned guilloche design. The interior of this box is gold washed. It is marke... Click for details

This is a wonderful German silver fox rendered in excellent detail and with a charming expression. It is extraordinarily life-like in appearance and has been captured in mid-stride, with one foot raised and with an alerted gaze. All the details of the fox’s face and musculature are wonderfully modeled, while its furry coat has also been expertly articulated. This fox is in excellent condition and of the very highest quality. This piece measures approx. 12” long and 6 ¾” high, and weighs appr... Click for details

This is a very important, museum-quality sterling silver and mixed metal water pitcher, beautifully designed and expertly decorated by Tiffany & Co., America's premier silversmiths, in the Aesthetic style. Its hand-hammered finish creates a subtle shimmering effect on the surface, cleverly suggestive of gently rippling water and this has been magnificently embellished by the application of an assortment of mixed metal fish all around the body. These have all been skillfully and meticulously cr... Click for details

Here is a lovely and useful sterling silver and mixed metal bowl by the Gorham Manufacturing Company. This deep circular bowl features a wide rim that has been ornamented with applied mixed metal decoration in the popular style of the Aesthetic Movement. The applied decoration is a sheath of wheat on a bed of granulated metal, a small bird, a grasshopper perched on a dandelion, and a band with figures in neoclassical costumes flanking a mask with swags, which are executed in a highly artistic ... Click for details

Here is a lovely sterling silver basket by silversmiths James Dixon & Son of Sheffield. This oval basket has a deep bowl with plain field supported on an elegant footring shaped with Rococo scrolls. The sides of the bowl are intricately pierced with a delicate design of scrolls and leaves with charming parakeets hidden within the design. The flaring, wavy rim is accented with a molded scroll border that supports a swing arm handle also in a shaped, scroll design. This basket is in excellent ... Click for details