William Walter offers a stunning and extensive collection of antique silver bowls ranging from the seventeenth century right up to the modern era.
The earliest bowls in our collection are twin handled vessels known as porringers which were popular from the Cromwellian period (c1650) right up to the middle eighteenth century and used for oatmeal .Unusual bowls from the seventeenth century and early eighteenth centuries with single pierced handles sometimes called bleeding bowls(and occasionally porringers) which by the Victorian period had changed purpose and were used as christening bowls.
We have a fine selection of rose bowls,punch bowls and large bowls suitable for use as fruit bowls or wine coolers or just to make an impressive decorative statement.We have bowls and porringers from the early Charles II period(c1660) right up to the modern era from the plainest styles to the highly decorative and in a vast array of shapes and sizes including bowls by some of the most important makers of the nineteenth century such as the Barnard family,Charles Stuart Harris,Horace Woodward and Elkington struck with assay marks from all the major silversmithing centres of the UK including Scotland and Ireland.
