SILVER SWEET BASKETS AND SUGAR BASKETS
Sweet baskets are like miniature sterling silver cake baskets about five inches across. They reflect all the period styles, from the late English George 11 ones of the so-called cast type, to the boat-shaped French antique ones of the 1790’s. Silver basckets are not like sterling silver boxes and  are [...]

SILVER EPERGNES
Epergnes are not common, and can only find room on the grandest dining tables. They were not made for very long - fifty years would cover the period - and there are only a few basic types of antique epergnes. This is the earliest type, with the dishes all being flat. In this example, [...]

SILVER CAKE BASKETS
Cake baskets are one of the commoner silver articles from 1740 onwards. As they are rather decorative in the centre of a table, they have always had quite a good value, though there is a great difference between the so-called “cast” types, and the ordinary engraved ones of the late eighteenth and early [...]