Five Sterling and Dutch Silver Items, Including Victorian Jug

Five sterling and Dutch silver items, comprising a Victorian…
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Five sterling and Dutch silver items, comprising a Victorian Britannia standard silver small jug (1883 London, maker's mark rubbed), a Dutch .833 silver sifter spoon with a foliate pierced bowl and floral engraved curved handle (1,850 Amsterdam, with unknown has maker's mark), a filigree silver tea strainer with a wavy rim and floral engraved handle (1909 Birmingham, maker's mark rubbed), a George III sterling silver card tray, shaped rectangular with rounded corners, reeded rim and engraved vacant central cartouche (1806 Sheffield, Jt Younge), together with a silver mounted glass perfume bottle. Total weight 306g, length 17 cm (spoon), length 15.5 cm, width 12 cm (tray)

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  • 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.
  • Filigree Work - Decorative Arts - Delicate decorations using fine threads of ceramics, glass or other materials to give a lace-like effect, attached together and applied as an ornament.
  • Cartouche - An ornamental panel in the form of of a shield, oval or rectangular scroll with curling edges. It may be carved into the back of a chair or the top of a sideboard, or present on a piece of silver or jewellery, and contain the initials of the original owner, heraldic symbols, or some other inscription, such as the details of a presentation.

    In ceramics the term defines the central area of a vase or similar with a decorative border in one of the shapes above, into which a decorative scene or figures have been painted.
  • 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.
  • Foliate - Decorated with leaves or leaf-like forms.
  • George Iii - George III (1738 - 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820.