Assorted 19th-20th Century Silver Cups with Varied Origins
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Three silver cups of Varied Origins, 19th century to circa 1940s, including a beaker with elaborate repousse work with flora and arabesques and patterned borders in the Malay or Yogya manner, apparently unmarked; a Continental silver bucket of fluted form with lightly embossed and engraved rococo style patterns (handle absent) and marked .800; and a small Egyptian bowl with petite foliate handles, marked .900 silver with cat, silver weight 232gr Heights: 10.5 cm, 5.5 cm and 3 cm
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- Foliate - Decorated with leaves or leaf-like forms.
- 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.
- Embossed / Repousse - Embossing, also known as repousse, is the technique of decorating metal with raised designs, by pressing or beating out the design from the reverse side of the object.It is the opposite of chasing, where the decoration is applied from the front. An embossed or repoussed object may have chasing applied to finish off the design.
- Engraving - The method of decorating or creating inscriptions on silver and other metal objects by marking the surface with a sharp instrument such as a diamond point or rotating cutting wheel.
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