Antique English Silver Plate Dog Knife Rests, Pair
Antique English Silver Plate Dog Knife Rests, Pair
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A pair of reclining dogs in silverplate, made as knife rests for the dining table and just as happy on a sideboard or bookshelf as small sculpture. The faces are the draw, with cropped ears, a chased collar, and fur texture worked into the back and flanks.
Both dogs show wear to the plating at the high points, most clearly at the shoulders and feet, where a pink copper tone and a yellow base metal show through. There is dark oxidation in the recesses of the fur and collar, and the surface of at least one ear is rough and pitted. The pair is not matched. One dog is noticeably brighter and appears to have been polished more recently, and the method of polishing is not established.
The underside of one dog is open to the hollow interior, with a yellow metal showing inside. The other is closed underneath. I found no marks, stamps, or numbers on either dog. The base metal is non-magnetic, and the silverplate is my assessment from the surface and construction, not from a mark or an acid test.
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