French .950 Sterling Silver Fruit Bowl by Charles Tirbour, c1900
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A French .950 sterling silver fruit bowl, Minerva 1 mark, with maker's mark for Charles Tirbour, c1900 the circular fruit bowl, plain with a restrained repousse rais-de-coeur border under the rolled rim, marked to the underside. Weight 343g height 6.5 cm, diameter: 21 cm
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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.
- Embossed / Repousse - Embossing, also known as repousse, is the technique of decorating metal with raised designs, by pressing or beating out the design from the reverse side of the object.It is the opposite of chasing, where the decoration is applied from the front. An embossed or repoussed object may have chasing applied to finish off the design.
This item has been included into following indexes:
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bowls and dishes, silver
- silver, fruit bowls 71
- silver, other 700
- silver, country of manufacture - French 338