Aesthetic style antique silver-plated salver

Aesthetic style antique silver-plated salver

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A elegant antique silver-plated salver, hand engraved in the Aesthetic style, with bamboo, flowers, birds and blossoms. The salver is mounted on four cast supports. This piece would make an excellent drinks tray.

The Aesthetic movement was a late 19th century ideal that art should be created for art's sake and designed for purely visual pleasure. For silver there have to be practical considerations since the objects are often functional, but the decoration tends to have a free will and beauty often with contradicting themes.

Dimensions:

Height 32 mm / 1 "
Diameter 305 mm / 12 "
Year

c1900

Place

Worcester

Condition

Excellent

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