FINE SILVER AND OBJETS DE VERTU - including The Collection of the Late George Withers, offered without reserve

A SILVER MOUNTED HANDBAG, DUTCH C.1860. A velvet handbag decorated with cut steel beads and mounted with a silver clasp cast with putti and flower...

A PAIR OF NORWEGIAN SILVER CLOAK BUTTONS, C.1800. Marked with a maker's mark and stamped K.T.S. to the backs. 3 cm. dia. 40 g.

A NIELLO SNUFF BOX, MOSCOW C.1839. AND AN UNMARKED, POSSIBLY SCANDINAVIAN, BOX. Russian Box 8.5 cm. 99 g. Scandinavian Box 8 cm. 110 g. 145 g.

AN ESCUTCHEON SHAPED EMBOSSED BOX, DUTCH C.1770. The sides embossed with a swan and two peacocks, the lid with a bacchic figure. Marked on the bas...

A CHINESE EXPORT SNUFF BOX, CANTON C.1825. The interior fully gilt and marked MK with 2 character marks. The lid engraved with flowers on a matted...

A SILVER MOUNTED MOTHER OF PEARL TOOTHPICK CASE, CANTON C.1820. The lid and sides are engraved with village house landscape, fish and flowers.  7...

A PAIR OF SILVER RELIQUARY FRAMES, POSS. ITALIAN MID 19TH C. The frames are cast with scrolling flowers around a laurel garland with eagle heads t...

AN ENGRAVED PARCEL GILT BEAKER, MOSCOW C.1760. The body engraved with eagles between fruit, scrolls and flowers. The lip of the beaker is gilded. ...

A LATE 19TH CENTURY GERMAN SILVER GILT MODEL OF A HARE WITH DETACHABLE HEAD. A well modelled hare with what appear to be garnet eyes. The head pul...

AN OBLONG SILVER GILT BOX WITH A CHASED LID, GERMAN C.1840. The lid embossed and chased with a classical scene, the rescue of Andromeda, the base ...

A SNUFF BOX WITH NIELLO DECORATION, PARIS C.1830 With a finely rendered scene of card players to the lid. 9.3 cm. 113 g. PROVENANCE: From the P...

A SILVER GILT HOVEDVANSOEG, DENMARK C.1760 Heavily gilt both inside and out and set with faux diamonds. 6.2 cm. 42 g. PROVENANCE: From the Priv...

AN ENGINE TURNED POMANDER, GERMAN C.1770. Cast as a stylised pear with a screw cap to the pierced body. 6 cm. 22 g. PROVENANCE: From the Privat...

A 19TH CENTURY SILVER GILT NEEDLE CASE CAST AS A SWADDLED BABY. With a friction fit pull off head. 8 cm. 50 g. PROVENANCE: From the Private Col...

A SILVER AND NIELLO ENAMEL PRAYER BOX, OTTOMAN 19TH C. Together with another similar example. 9 cm. 100 g. PROVENANCE: From the Private Collect...

AN AUSTRIAN SILVER & ENAMEL BOX WITH A PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM JOSEPH STALIN, C.1945.  A blue and white enamelled oblong box with the inscri...

A SILVER MOUNTED AND GOLD INLAID LACQUER BOX, FRENCH MID 18TH C. The lid and sides inlaid with three colour gold decoration. Stamped on the rim wi...

A CASED FILIGREE HAND MIRROR, POSS OTTOMAN C.1860. A double sided hand mirror in a fitted velvet lined morocco case. 35.5 cm. length of case

AN EMBOSSED HAND MIRROR, TURKISH C.1880. The reverse of the mirror chased and pierced with strawberries. Marked within the decoration with a tughr...

A SILVER MOUNTED COSMETIC BOX, CHINESE C.1840. The engraved lid has a mirror to the inside above two lidded compartments for make up. 6.5 cm.

AN EARLY AMERICAN PUNCH STRAINER, WILLIAM BREED, BOSTON C.1745. With a suspension loop to the end of one of the elongated handles. Marked WB and '...

TWO MATCHED PAIRS OF IRISH ROCOCO CANDLESTICKS, DUBLIN C.1760. Two pairs of cast Irish rococo candlesticks with typically Irish elongated nozzles....

AN OVERSIZED PRESENTATION QUAICH,  WILSON AND SHARP, EDINBURGH, 1931. An unusually large presentation quaich of plain form with two lug handles.  ...

A SET OF FOUR WINE COASTERS, PATRICK ROBERTSON, EDINBURGH 1781. With two pierced bands of harebells and wooden bases. Engraved with a Baron's coro...

A HEART SHAPED FILIGREE BOX, DECCAN C.1770. A small box with filigree panels set in a frame with gilt edges. Deccan late 18th C. 4.4 cm. 32 g.

AN ANGLO-INDIAN CUP & COVER BY TWENTYMAN & CO. C.1830. The flared trumpet foot with gadroon edge, the lower body is tightly chased with flowers an...

AN ANGLO-INDIAN CUP AND COVER BY LATTEY BROS. CALCUTTA C.1830. A campana shape cup with a shell form hinged lid and greyhound finial. The body of ...

AN EMBOSSED LIDDED MUG, MIDDLETON & CO., CALCUTTA C.1850 . Chased all over with scrolls and flowers with an acorn finial and a vacant escutcheon. ...

A LARGE EWER WITH CAST HANDLE, MADRAS C.1880. The lower body of the ewer is entwined with a cast and applied snake, the upper shoulder is decorate...

A HEAVY ESCUTCHEON SHAPED BOX, LUCKNOW C.1880. An unusual anglo-indian snuff box of a more typically 18th century design. 8 cm. 95 g. PROVENANC...

A SILVER HIP FLASK, KASHMIR C.1880. Together with a small dish and an ink well both also made in Kashmir c.1890. 9 cm. 269 g.

A CARD CASE WITH EMBOSSED DECORATION, CALCUTTA, C.1900. Together with a spectacle case also made in Calcutta. 17 cm. 202 g.

A ROPE OR WINDPROOF LIGHTER, MADRAS, C.1880. A well made and uncommon item in Indian silver. Illustrated in "Indian Silver" by W.R.T.Wilkinson pp...

A FLASK WITH EMBOSSED DECORATION, CALCUTTA C.1890. Together with a spirit measure also from Calcutta C.1900. 16.2 cm. 265 g.

AN EMBOSSED BOWL, BURMA C.1890. Together with two similar Burmese bowls, the shape based on an old form of alms bowl for buddhist monks. 15 cm. ...

A HEAVILY EMBOSSED CHRISTENING MUG, MADRAS INDIA C.1900. Together with an embossed sugar bowl made in Calcutta C.1900. 8.5 cm. 342 g.

A PAIR OF BETEL BOXES, BURMA C.1890. Embossed all over with typical scrolling decoration. One engraved to the base with a fish, the other with a b...

A VESTA CASE, KUTCH INDIA C.1890. Together with a baby's rattle and a beaker both also with typical Kutch decoration C.1900. 8 cm. 178 g.

A LARGE TEAPOT & SUGAR BOWL, HAMILTON & CO., CALCUTTA C.1830. A heavily made squat baluster shape teapot with a matching covered sugar bowl, both ...

AN OVAL TEAPOT ON STAND, W.H.TWENTYMAN, MADRAS C.1815. Of typically anglo-indian design, with a fruit wood handle and horn knop. The stand has 4 c...

A PLAIN BEAKER WITH ENGRAVED ARMOURIAL, CHARLES NEPHEW & CO., CALCUTTA C.1850. Elaborately engraved with the arms of Taney. 10 cm. 223 g.

A COPPER FLASK OVERLAID WITH SILVER, TANJORE INDIA C.1890. A copper body overlaid with silver bands of decoration above and below shaped reserves ...

A PAIR OF SILVER LADLES, LONDON 1752. A very unusual pair of matching soup ladles with cast shell bowls and rococo cast finials. The reverse of ea...

A RATTAIL MOTE SPOON, LONDON C. 1730. With a bowl pierced with plain circular holes. Maker's mark illegible. 13.5 cm. 8 g. PROVENANCE: From the...

A RATTAIL MOTE SPOON, LONDON C.1730. The bowl pierced with scrolls, unmarked. 15 cm. 9 g. PROVENANCE: From the Private Collection of the Late G...

A SHELL BACK MOTE SPOON, LONDON C.1760. The bowl pierced with scrolls. Made by Nicholas Hearnden. 13 cm. 9 g. PROVENANCE: From the Private Coll...

A VICTORIAN SIFTER SPOON, BIRMINGHAM 1888. Made by Heath & Middleton to an organic design attributed to Dr Christopher Dresser. 16 cm. 35 g. PR...

A SKARKSKIN CASED KNIFE AND FORK WITH AGATE HANDLES, C.1700. A steel two prong fork and matching knife with silver ferrules and facetted agate han...

A 17TH CENTURY FORK WITH AGATE HANDLE, C.1640. With a multi-facetted agate handle a silver three prong fork. 16 cm. PROVENANCE: From the Private...

A SHELL BACK MOTE SPOON, LONDON C.1760. The bowl pierced with scrolls, engraved to the back of the bowl with initials TM. Mark illegible. 13.5 cm...

A GILT CAST NATURALISTIC SUGAR SPOON, JOSEPH WILLMORE, BIRMINGHAM 1834. With a cast vine leaf stem and bowl. Together with a gilt Geo. II teaspoon...

THREE EARLY NORWEGIAN SPOONS, C.1700-1783. Each one engraved to the finial with flowers. Two marked with maker's mark only the third is fully mark...

FOUR CAST STEMMED DUTCH SPOONS, 18TH C. Each spoon marked with a maker's mark only. Two are gilt, the large un-gilt spoon is engraved around the r...

A SHOVEL SHAPED CADDY SPOON WITH MOTHER OF PEARL HANDLE, BIRMINGHAM 1811. Together with a plain Fiddle Pattern example, Birmingham 1831, and an en...

A PROVINCIAL DOG NOSE SPOON C. 1690, WILLIAM GOUGH OF MARLBOROUGH. Marked thrice on the reverse of the stem. Probably William Gough III b.1655. Se...

A LATE 17TH CENTURY BARNSTAPLE DIE-STRUCK SPOON. Prick engraved 'MR 1674'. Marked with a cinqfoil rose. See West Country Silver Spoons and Their M...

AN ELIZABETHAN SEAL TOP SPOON, LONDON C.1599. Clearly marked with a leopard's head and date letter, the maker's mark is illegible. The knop retain...

A GOOD GILT APOSTLE SPOON, THOMAS DARE II, TAUNTON C.1666. The large, typically west country nimbus prick engraved 'I D 1667'. The mark appears in...

AN APHRODITE KNOP SPOON WITH HEBREW INSCRIPTION, POSS GERMAN C.1680. Together with a similar, slightly smaller spoon with no inscription.  20 cm....

A GERMAN SPOON, DANZIG C.1670. Together with a similar German example and an early Hungarian spoon. 20 cm. 157 g. PROVENANCE: From the Private ...