I've seen lots of fifties stuff with those plastic wire wrapped handles, so I'd agree on that date. That thing is fabulous.
oh, sorry, Bronwen, my misreading!
They do go, indeed - but unless the perspective is off, OPs looks smaller? @Fid - not poppies, I think acanthus.
Bronwen, look at the hands holding it. I don't think big enough for a wash set.
Cheers: it's a bit of a mish mash of styles!
Hm. that does make me wonder if the lid was an addition. Are both halves hallmarked?
I did know, and I've totally forgotten. Gah. It's something to do with the local warden region or something. I'll update when I remember. ;) Sorry!
I'm going to disagree on the possible date. ;) Stuff like this got made even after WW2 here.
These were often sold to be thrown in rivers for his festival. It happens here: the Thames authorities ask that it be a bit limited, so people are...
Flamin' hell, that's a lot of dosh. Marbled with sprigged work borders.That curved black and gilt decor is very much in the Japonaiserie...
Once you've seen that Claiborne mark, it sticks in the brain. ;)
Agreed on 50s, agreed on mosaic. I've quite a bit of this studd, it keep attaching itself to me. The original Grand Tour pieces were made by nuns.
Beads look like Czech glass. Agree on guilloche enamel, and possibly silver.
There's been no such thing as "real" Capodimonte in decades.
That's handsome. I agree it's been got at later: it's reasonable for 18th C silver to have fancy shaped handles and knops and such, but all that...
I'm honestly not seeing anything wildly German about it. That plastic veneer was widely used here, and the legs are classic, to coin a phrase. It...
More likely to be German. It's Art Deco, so probably between the wars. Much stuff imported into the UK from Germany was marked Foreign then....
Nah, typically Brit that. Seen loads of them.
I do know enough to be dangerous, and I'm a Londoner. ;) Isn't he interesting. I've a feeling he's one of the Chaucer characters. He's also...
Desvres makes sense. That is not a crystalline glaze. ;)
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