Thomas Phipps & Edward Robinson More Dining and Entertaining

A beautiful abalone seashell and two-tone acrylic bar, table or kitchen trivet, circa mid-20th century, USA. Colors include beautiful pearl pink and gr...

This nutcracker by Carl Auböck III by is a simply elegant design. The wooden sides feel very nice in hand, and the ebony and maple contrast and complem...

An Antique George III solid Silver Teapot on Stand decorated with a delicate engraved design on the Teapot and on the Oval Tray below. The Teapo...

Made circa 1790, this classic antique George III Old Sheffield Plate wine cooler has a cylindrical, bucket-shaped form. The body is embellished with horizontal hooped bands and featu...

An exceedingly rare and important pair of George III-period mahogany knife boxes of exceptional quality and condition. The boxes are of serpentine form with refined crossbanded and c...

A fantastic 19th century American kitchen hardwood mortar with a turned softwood pestle. It’s likely that this mortar would have lived in a larger wood or marble holder, and removed ...

The fine art of wine-making is brought to life by this rare French wine corker. Beautifully crafted of wrought iron, this corker is specifically des...

Gorgeous iron and leather wine rack by Arthur Umanoff. Solid iron frame with two butcher block shelves. Saddle leather straps hold 30 bottles. Lower shelf can hold an additional nine...

Each cistern is in the form of a fluted vase on a rectangular pedestal. The lead-lined vases have brass handles, removable lids with pineapple finials and taps. The crossbanded pedestals have cupboard doors enclosing slatted shelves for warming plates in one and a lead-lined slops drawers, a tambour fronted shelf and a cellaret in the other. Susan Stuart, 'Gillow of Lancaster and London', 2008 vol 1 p308-315 illustrates many pedestal urns including the drawings for Workington Hall, Cumbria, dated 1788. PLates 342 and 343 show pedestals with a similar arrangement of shelves and drawers. Thomas Sheraton explained the functions of dining room pedestals in his 'Drawing Book' of 1793: 'IN spacious dining rooms the sideboards are often made without drawers of any sort, having simply a rail, a little ornament...

Georgian silver cake basket, London 1796, poss Thomas Chawner. The oval shaped basket with pedestal reed base, border pierced surround, upper section with outer reed design border an...

Geo III Rolling mahogany cheese and biscuit server, circa 1800. When dinner ended in the 18th century and early 19th century the cheese server was brought out. It was filled with che...

An exceptional, fine and impressive set of four antique Georgian English sterling silver salts; an addition to our silver cruet and condiment collection ...