Featured Ashtray or something more

5 1/2 inches in diameter. Has a hammered pattern and a heraldic shield. 3 marks on the interior. Hopefully someone can decipher the marks and whether the shield is just a basic pattern or a family's

 

The punch marks look like real punch marks, bedarned if I know whose.

 

Pentagram mark is Spanish, 1934-88, .915 silver, makers mark at right (Platería López, Madrid), can't make out mark at left. 19th century Spanish coat of arms stamped in the bowl...

~Cheryl

 

Something similar.

https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/...ine-sale/royal-spanish-silver-bowl-1505/55136

Debora

 

looks like a wine bottle coaster..

 

If only mine had the provenance like that one!

 

After doing a search on the maker, I saw a two handle urn with what appears to the the same mark as mine, MG according to this auction
A Plateria López Silver Covered Two-Handled Urn, Madrid, Spain, | Lot #61334 | Heritage Auctions
Would the MG be the person at Plateria Lopez who made the piece?

@komokwa - the diameter of the bottom of the bowl definitely could hold a wine bottle and I did see Plateria Lopez produced other silver wine related items

 

That would be Manuel Garrido's mark, with Platería López as retailer...

~Cheryl

 

Personally believe, like the larger piece in the Rockefeller auction, that's it's just a bowl - should also note the obsolete coat of arms on yours is just decorative, while the coat of arms on the auctioned bowl belonged to Juan Carlos I.

~Cheryl

 

Are we sure the coat of arms is decorative? I see Castile, Leon and Bourbon plus the crown. Could possibly pertain to something.

Debora

 

A version of a 19th century Spanish coat of arms (1813-68), obsolete and just decorative when this piece was produced, especially with the León lions facing to the right...




~Cheryl

 

A very serious platería to be using a decorative coat of arms, I'd thionk. And the dish would have been a luxury item until almost the end of the mark's period. The right-facing lion was used in Spain. Here's the coat of arms of the New Kingdom of León, for instance.

Debora

 

Nice images of Platería López - they seemed to have a wide variety of silver in stock.

I'm sorry if I'm just dense, but not really understanding your comments. Are you saying that an upscale 20th century Spanish platería would not be selling silver with a decorative and historic, if not quite correct, coat of arms stamped in a bowl? Personally, suspect it would appeal to many, including tourists. And why would this piece be any more of a luxury item than any other silver item?

If you believe that a coat of arms like the representation in the bowl, with its right-facing lions, might have been in use when the piece was made in 1934-88, perhaps an example could be found...

Regarding the right-facing lion, I was referring to the orientation on the coat of arms referenced, wouldn't be surprised if over the centuries of the León lion being in use, it was occasionally represented as right-facing, but certainly not common, even the one you posted is surrounded by left-facing lions - maybe the creator thought it just looked better. Might question the accuracy of the coat of arms you posted, its source's note:





~Cheryl