19th Century Sterling Silver Cruet Set

• Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.
• Circa - A Latin term meaning 'about', often used in the antique trade to give an approximate date for the piece, usually considered to be five years on either side of the circa year. Thus, circa 1900 means the piece was made about 1900, probably between 1895 and 1905. The expression is sometimes abbreviated to c.1900.
• Gadrooning - A series of lobes usually as a border. In furniture gadrooning is found as carved decoration around the edges of table tops in the Chippendale and Jacobean style furniture. Gadrooning is also found as decoration on the rims of silver and ceramics.
• Victorian Period - The Victorian period of furniture and decorative arts design covers the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. There was not one dominant style of furniture in the Victorian period. Designers used and modified many historical styles such as Gothic, Tudor, Elizabethan, English Rococo, Neoclassical and others, although use of some styles, such as English Rococo and Gothic tended to dominate the furniture manufacture of the period.
  
  The Victorian period was preceded by the Regency and William IV periods, and followed by the Edwardian period, named for Edward VII (1841 ? 1910) who was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India for the brief period from 1901 until his death in 1910.
• Foliate - Decorated with leaves or leaf-like forms.
• Parcel Gilt - An item or component that is partially gilded, the purpose of the gilding being to accentuate the decoration. For example a silver vessel may have gilded highlights, or the leg of a table or chair may have gilded carvings.

This item has been included into following indexes:

• Hennell I, Robert (London) - silver, maker or retailer 40
• Hennell II, David (London) - silver, maker or retailer 7
• Hennell III, Robert (London) - silver, maker or retailer 11
• Hennell, David & Robert (London) - silver, maker or retailer 148
• muffineers - silver items 22
• salt cellars / dishes, silver, age or period
  • silver, George II 19
  • silver, George IV 56
• salt cellars / dishes, silver, sets
  • silver, pairs 140
  • silver, set of eight 4
  • silver, set of four 42
  • silver, Victorian 106
• Smith, Stephen (London) - silver, maker or retailer 20
• Wood, Samuel (London) - silver, maker or retailer 19