MAPPIN & WEBB LTD.
SIVERS * BAROQUE SILVER 2 PIECES TABLE SET FOR SALT AND SPICES
Applied art - for immediate use as intended.
It can form a set with sets.
Description
Silver (925) Sterling Victorian set of 2 for spices: salt shaker, decorative spice container (little tub). From the famous English studio Mappin&Webb. Great baroque ornaments. Luxurious, utilitarian decoration of the center of the table.
Studio / Creator of Mappin & Webb
Country of manufacture England, Sheffield
Period in Art Neo-Baroque * Neo-Baroque at the end of the reign of Queen Victoria
Date of manufacture 1862 * 1862 - the year of the establishment of the workshop under the name of Mappin & Webb. * The most likely years of creation of the set are around 1900 - the end of the Victorian era.
Period / Century 19th century * Probably the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Material Silver, stamped 925 Sterling
Technique of creation Silver hand-cast, engraved, chiseled, welded, soldered, spun, punctured, polished.
Good condition. Silver has been cleaned of patina. Signs of using and long period of time, but without brakes or other damage.
Please note, that it could be part of the silver table setting in royal family. Not many people has silver salt shaker, even in actual period.
Dimensions:
About 75 mm x 27 mm x 27 mms (salt shaker) 51 mms without cup / cover with little wholes
About 55 mm x 43 mm x 31 mms (bowl for spices)
Total weight: 64.39 g * 32.88 g salt shaker; 31.51 g spices container;
Mappin & Webb (M&W) is an international jewellery company headquartered in England. Mappin & Webb traces its origins to a silver workshop founded in Sheffield 1775; 248 years ago. It now has retail stores throughout the UK.
Mappin & Webb has created jewellery for royalty and high society; both in the United Kingdom, and internationally. Patrons have included Queen of France Marie-Antoinette, the Empress of Russia, and Princess Grace of Monaco. The company historically held Royal Warrants to both the Russian Empire and the Japanese Royal Household. Queen Victoria was the first British monarch to commission Mappin & Webb. Victoria's Golden Jubilee necklace was created by the house in 1888, and was designated by the Queen as an heirloom of the Crown. Mappin & Webb has held Royal Warrants in the UK since 1897. Today, Mappin & Webb holds warrants to both Qeen Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth II, and the Prince of Wales. Mappin & Webb's master craftsman Martin Swift was appointed in 2012 to the position of Crown Jewellers the custodian of the British Crown Jewels who is responsible for preparing them for the State Opening of Parliament and other state occasions. Mark Appleby, also of Mappin & Webb, took over as crown jeweller in 2017.
Mappin & Webb produced the original Ryder Cup trophy, and made trophies for the Royal Ascot horse races for 75 years.
COMMENTS:
SIMILAR, BUT 3-PIECES TABLE SET AND MUCH BIGGER (ABOUT 650 GRAMS OF TOTAL WEIGHT WITH COBALT GLASS FILLING) MADE BY MAPPIN AND WEBB IS IN POLISH GALLERY OF SILVERS AND ARTS FOR 13.900 PLN / 3.192,97 USD.
VERY RARE EXAMPLE OF ANTIQUE TABLE SILVERS,
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