Edwardian Sterling Silver Tray with Presentation Inscription, 1911

A large Edwardian sterling silver tray, Walker & hall,…
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A large Edwardian sterling silver tray, Walker & hall, Sheffield, 1911, in George III style, of serpentine oval outline, the swept gallery sides pierced to a foliate design and with a gadrooned rim rising towards the ends, on bun feet, the centre engraved with a presentation inscription to S.J. Jacobs, as Chairman of the South Australian Tattersalls club, from the Club's members, dated 1915, 7.5 cm high, 59.5 cm wide, 42 cm deep, 3,272g. Provenance: Samuel Joshua Jacobs (1853-1937), Adelaide, South Australia

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  • Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.
  • Foliate - Decorated with leaves or leaf-like forms.
  • Manner of .... / Style of ..... - A cataloguing term where the item, in the opinion of the cataloguer is a work in the style of the artist, craftsman or designer, possibly of a later period.
  • George Iii - George III (1738 - 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820.
  • Engraving - The method of decorating or creating inscriptions on silver and other metal objects by marking the surface with a sharp instrument such as a diamond point or rotating cutting wheel.
  • Edwardian - The Edwardian period of English furniture and decorative arts design is named for Edward VII (1841 ? 1910) who was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India for the brief period from 1901 until his death in 1910. It follows the Victorian period, in turn was followed by the Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles. In Australia, designs of this period are also known as being in the Federation style.
  • Gadrooning - A series of lobes usually as a border. In furniture gadrooning is found as carved decoration around the edges of table tops in the Chippendale and Jacobean style furniture. Gadrooning is also found as decoration on the rims of silver and ceramics.

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