Antique Austro-Hungarian Silver Drinks Tray, Oval, Circa 1900

An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Russian silver drinks tray; an addition to our ornamental Russian silverware collection. This fine antique Russian silver tray has an oval shaped form. The surface of the drinks tray is embellished with engraved floral and foliate sprays incorporating eight circular vacant cartouches subdivided by rosette designs. The ornamentation to the tray encompasses a large vacant circular cartouche. The raised rounded border is ornamented with applied moulded decoration to the rim. This impressive Russian silver tray is fitted with a plain rounded hallmarked handle to either end. The hallmarks struck to the underside of this tray include: Maker's mark: ?.?.? (untraced) Assay mark: A.C , 1871 Silver quality/purity mark: 84 (84 zolotniks) City mark: St George slaying the dragon (Moscow, Russia) This assayer could be either Aggey Grigoryevich Svechin or Aleksandr Alekseyevich Smirnov 84 zolotniki is equivalent to 875/1000 or .875 standard silver Condition This antique tray is a very good gauge of silver, excellent quality and in exceptional condition in keeping with age. The engraved ornamentation is all very crisp. The Russian silver hallmarks...

An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver gallery tea tray; an addition to our diverse collection of serving trays. This exceptional antique Vict...

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A fine and impressive antique George V English sterling silver galleried tea tray; an addition to our antique silver teaware collection. This fine antique George V sterling silver tea tray has a rounded navette shaped form. The surface of the tray is plain and unembellished. The flared galleried border is embellished with pierced arch and vertical pale decoration accented with circular motifs to the elevating ends. The upper rim of the hallmarked galleried border is ornamented with a band of applied reed decoration. This impressive sterling silver tea tray incorporates a plain oval inset handle to either end, accented with a portion of pierced angular decoration to the nadir. The underside of this pierced silver gallery tray bears the retailer’s mark ‘D & J. Wellby Ltd, Garrick St, London’. Condition This antique tea tray...

This early 20th century serving piece from France is worked in richly toned silver. Its form follows honest, well-proportioned lines typical of well-made pieces from its era and regi...

A fine Art Nouveau period sterling silver tray from England. With English fine silver hallmarks: Crown, lion, date letter and Makers mark: W&H in a flag (Walker & Hall, Sheffield)

This early 20th century serving piece from France is worked in richly toned silver. Its form follows honest, well-proportioned lines typical of well-made pieces from its era and regi...

This is a particularly attractive example. First the "navette" shape is most unusual, more often found in gem settings than trays. The gallery, pierced with scrolling stylised acanth...