{"product_id":"antique-silver-plated-bowl-empire-style-00697","title":"Antique Silver-Plated Bowl, Empire Style Lion Head Handles and Grapes — Europe, 19th Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Empire style borrowed its vocabulary from imperial Rome with genuine conviction, and the lion — emblem of strength and vigilance — appeared across the decorative arts of the period on everything from furniture mounts to tableware. A bowl with lion-head handles, its body fluted like a classical vessel and its rim dressed with hanging grape clusters, was designed to announce the same authority at the dining table that a Roman triumphal arch announced in the street: the confidence of a style that never doubted its own grandeur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis bowl is European, nineteenth century, in silver-plated metal, its form a deep round basin rising from a stepped circular foot bordered with a fine gadroon edge. The body is worked in broad vertical fluting, the classical device that gives a round vessel visual structure and catches the light along each channel. At the rim, the edge rises and falls in a continuous scalloped wave, punctuated at intervals by cast lion-head handles — each mask modelled with a full mane and an open ring held in its jaws — and by hanging swags of grapes and leaves cast in high relief beneath a shell-form cartouche. Note how the grape swags droop naturally from their points of attachment, the weight of the fruit rendered convincingly even in cast metal — the detail that separates a considered Empire-style casting from a flatter, more mechanical reproduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bowl has been cleaned and is sold as seen — the exterior silver plating presents well, with normal wear to the interior plating consistent with age, as noted; there are no visible dents or repairs. It sits well on a dining table, in a classical interior, or displayed in a cabinet as a piece of decorative silverware.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt arrives professionally packed and fully insured. All duties and import charges are our responsibility — you pay nothing beyond the listed price. Returns are accepted within 30 days.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDETAILS:\u003cbr\u003e\nSize: Height 9.5 cm (3.7 in) · Diameter 13 cm (5.1 in)\u003cbr\u003e\nMaterial: silver-plated metal\u003cbr\u003e\nStyle\/Period: Empire style, European, 19th century\u003cbr\u003e\nWeight: 503 g (1.1 lb)\u003cbr\u003e\nShipping: professionally packed, fully insured, worldwide — all import duties paid by us, nothing to settle on delivery\u003cbr\u003e\nCondition: good general condition; normal wear to interior plating consistent with age; no visible dents or repairs\u003cbr\u003e\nReturns: accepted within 30 days\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maison Jaspers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59526944948569,"sku":"LM-V-289","price":802.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1063\/5388\/5529\/files\/il_fullxfull.8604718587_7cdf.jpg?v=1790013560","url":"https:\/\/maisonjaspers.com\/products\/antique-silver-plated-bowl-empire-style-00697","provider":"Maison Jaspers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}