Catalog: Silver: Plate

Likely a bottle or cruet holder, this item is rectangular with rounded corners, stands on four ball feet, and measures 6 1/2" long by 3" wide by 2 1/2" tall.

English Georgian in style, the bottom edge of the body is encircled by an egg and dart band, while the top has an applied gadroon band on the outside edge.

The side has two plain areas, top and bottom, separating a central pierced, convex, strip...

In the realm of American silver the notion prevails that the finest and most elegant pieces were rendered in sterling, with "lesser" items produced in silverplate.

This 4 3/4" tall, 3" diameter, tea caddy marked for the outstanding 19th century Connecticut manufacturing firm of Meriden Britannia is disabusing of this idea.

Cylindrical in form, the entire body is contoured in a dense, raised respousse acanthus leaf design.

Three figures are incorporated within this matrix...