20th Century Italian Solid Silver Holy Water Stoup with Tap

Smooth round sterling silver centerpiece/bowl with handles. The bowl has no workmanship but has been left with a clean and essential line. To contrast this linearity and modernity, t...

Centerpiece with plate made of 800 solid silver in Renaissance style. The centerpiece was made love with different processing methods. The predominant method is handcrafting, which...

The inkwell, rectangular in shape, was completely handmade obtained from a silver plate and finely embossed and chiseled with scrolls and flowers, typical of the Italian Baroque of t...

Solid silver chocolate pot in Baroque style with feet. The spiral work makes it very bright due to the faces that mirror each other. The body of the chocolate pot is supported by 3...

This highly decorative silver holy water font or stoup, is stamped with hallmarks placing its manufacture in Aspiazu, Bilbao, Spain during the l...

Holy font in solid silver, hallmarked with 800 Holy font height 31 cm, width 19.5 cm, with rear shelf 38 x 28 cm The silver waterfont can get taken of easely...

Italian Art nouveau two piece punch bowl set. Silver Plate. Signed "Orli". Early 20th century. large

From Milan a 19th century Italian silver and crystal compote bowl in good condition from a private collection. This antique Neoclassical covered compote bowl has a very fine hand-chased vegetal decoration and engraving, a lovely cast engraved silver 800/000 finial and shows silver-maker’s mark for Cristoforo Corbella active in the first half of 19th century in Milan, contrada degli Orefici 3194. This antique silver compote of supreme craftsmanship stands on a three-lobed pedestal base with B L monogram engraved in the central part, features tripod legs decorated with neoclassical motifs, scrolls, flowers, rosettes supporting a circular upper ring adorned with elegant acanthus leafed piercing. Engraved crystal cup and a cover finely engraved with geometrical and vegetal pattern, surmounted by a cast gem finial. The following marks can be seen on the bottom of the foot and the upper edge of the compote, (the original descriptions are reported, as they appear on the documents of the State Archive of Milan): 1) “Forma eptagona. Globo col Zodiaco ed i setti (sic) Trioni” Heptagon form. Globe with the Zodiac and the seven Trioni (seven stars of the Ursa Major) Mark of the Guarantee Office in use in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy from 1812 for works with a title of 800 thousandths. 2) "Aratro" Plow Mark of the Guarantee Office in use in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy from 1812. 3) "insegna della Luna Piena...