Fine quality Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Vesta Match Safe, William Kerr C.1900. Repousse relief depicting as the central theme on one side, an attractive nude female being adored and pursued by a male suitors frolicking in waves with fish swimming among them. The other side is either etched monogrammed RMF within elaborate waves and fish. Stamped Sterling with mark for William Kerr and numbered 941. Measures: 2.75 x 1.75 inches. Item Weight: 37 grams.
Fine Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Vesta Match Safe,William Kerr C.1900
by Louis WineFine quality Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Vesta Match Safe, William Kerr C.1900. Repousse relief depicting as the central theme on one side, an attractive nude female being adored and pursued by a male suitors frolicking in waves with fish swimming among them. The other side is either etched monogrammed RMF within elaborate waves and fish. Stamped Sterling with mark for William Kerr and numbered 941. Measures: 2.75 x 1.75 inches. Item Weight: 37 grams.
Louis Wine
Louis Wine Ltd., Toronto specialists in Antique Silver , Antique Jewellery & Decorative Arts, are a 4th generation family business.Louis Wine (1865-1946) founded the company in Dublin, Ireland in 1880. Louis Wine began selling to silver collectors in Dublin from a shop in historic Wellington Quay. In 1908, he located on Dublin's fashionable Grafton Street. To the firm came the worlds leading Georgian Silver collectors. Pieces by Paul de Lamerie, Paul Storr, Hester Bateman and Irish Georgian Silver were constantly on display. Our gallery run by Richard (Louis Wine's great grandson) at 150 Cumberland Street (Yorkville), Toronto, displays a range of fine Antique Silver, Old Sheffield Plate, Antique Jewellery & Decorative Arts from the 18th-20th century, including Bateman, Storr, Ramsden, Tiffany, Knox, Liberty, Jensen, Christopher Dresser.
