Antique Silver Sugar Bowls and Tongs
"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.”
Albert Einstein(German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
Before drinking tea became fashionable sugar was stored away in a box and was used to sweeten alcoholic drinks such as punch. The explosion of tea drinking brought this mundane sweetner front stage and hence the need to display it properly.
Sugar bowls became crafted in Silver and needed to be as elegant and decorative as they silver items it would be used with. Early sugar bowls were often plain bowls with lift off covers but soon developed into vase shaped urns and highly decorative baskets.
These baskets, often boat shaped had swing handles and came with or without liners as well as gilding. Liners were necessary with highly decorative pierced sided baskets.
There are a wide variety available, from novelty designs such as coal scuttles to the traditional swing handled basket. All are very useable and highly collectable
Below are a selection of antique silver sugar bowls and tongs from Silver2treasure.Please click on the picture link to view the item and purchase price.
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These are very good Solid Silver Sugar Tongs. They are completely plain apart from the Old English pattern to both sides of the curved part of the handles. They are of a good guage of silver.
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This is a very nice pair of Solid Silver Sugar Tongs. They are completely plain in design with just a raised oblong shape on each side near the top. They have small egg shaped nips.(more pictures)
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This is a super Boxed Solid Silver Cream Jug & Sugar Bowl. They are of a lovely shape with shaped rims and scroll handles and they stand on 4 paw feet. They come in their orginal box which has a lovely deep purple velour inside and a cream satin covering to the inside of the lid which has a stamp "Est (a Crown) 1853 James Hardy & Co Ltd Silversmiths Aberdeen".
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This is a beautiful Solid Silver Victorian Swing Handled Sugar Basket. The Silver Basket has a decorative pierced decoration surrounding the whole of the body and it also has a pierced decoratative handle. It comes complete with its original blue glass liner.
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This is a beautiful Good Sized Solid Silver Pierced Swing Handled Sugar Basket which carries hallmarks for Sheffield 1912 and makers marks of William Hutton & Sons Ltd.
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This is a super Cased Solid Silver Cream Jug, Sugar Bowl, 6 Spoons and Tongs Set. Open the lid and it certainly has the WOW factor. The sugar bowl and the cream have a heavily embossed floral pattern surrounding the bodies with a ribbed pattern band just below the fluted rims. They both have gilt interiors. The 6 spoons have embossed terminals and handles and each have a shaped cartouche which are all blank. The matching tongs have the same pattern to the sides as the spoons. These items come complete in their original shaped box which has a lovely deep blue interior.
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In order to give you the widest choice of Antique Silver items the selection below are offered for sale from other eBay sellers. They are not in anyway connected to Silver2treasure. Please see my free guide to buying on eBay. The below links are affiliate links which mean I will earn a very small amount of commission from eBay for any purchase made from the below items. |
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