Sterling Silver Entree Dishes by Daniel Smith & Robert Sharp - Antique George III (1787)

Description

These exceptional antique George III English sterling silver entree dishes have a rectangular cut cornered form, in the classic Adams style.

Each dish is fitted with a deep hallmarked domed cover, surmounted with the original impressive cast silver reed decorated handles enveloped with leaf designs to the terminals.

The rounded surface of each component is plain and unembellished, apart from an applied gadroon decorated border to the rim of each base.

The interior rim of the base and anterior surface of the cover of each dish are numbered '1' and '2'; the facilities the appropriate cover being associated with the corresponding base with ease.

These silver entree dishes, made by the renowned London silversmiths Daniel Smith & Robert Sharp, have been crafted in the highly desirable Adams style; such pieces are becoming increasingly difficult to locate.

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