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Vintage & Antique Silver Dishes

Sterling Silver Dishes — practical, versatile table pieces, in a wide range of styles.
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Silver dishes are genuinely practical table pieces — shallower than a bowl, and suited to everything from sweets and nuts to a general serving role. They work as well on a sideboard as they do as an everyday table piece. Every piece is hallmarked, guaranteeing the silver content under UK law, and like bowls, dishes remain a popular wedding or anniversary gift.

At a Glance

Shallower than a bowl, suited to sweets, nuts, or general serving
Works equally well on a sideboard or as an everyday table piece
Wide range of traditional and contemporary styles
A popular wedding or anniversary gift, like bowls

Style & Maker History

“Dishes” spans several distinct named forms rather than one single evolution. The entrée dish — shallow, usually rectangular or oval, and covered — is the most common: genuinely rare before 1780, with the vast majority dating from the late Georgian and Victorian periods, and many have a removable handle so the lid doubles as a second serving dish. The tazza, a wide shallow dish on a stemmed foot, moved from a plain, short Georgian stem to a taller pedestal by the Art Deco period, and was generally ornamental rather than for serving. The bon bon dish, pierced to show off a sweet’s wrapper, is often mistaken for the earlier Georgian sweetmeat dish, though most surviving examples are actually 20th-century. Before electroplating became widespread, dishes in this style were often Old Sheffield Plate — a fused silver-on-copper technique — rather than solid silver, worth knowing when a piece is described that way.

Buyer's Guide

Worth deciding what the dish is actually for before choosing a style — a shallow dish suits sweets, nuts, or a light serving role, where a deeper one works better for something more substantial. As with bowls, the range spans both traditional and more contemporary styles, so it’s worth being clear on the setting it needs to suit.

A few things to know

Any item which is guaranteed to be over 100 years old.
Sterling Silver is guaranteed by the UK Hallmarking Act. Each piece is independently verified and assayed for the purity of silver content.
Yes, all of the items shown on our website are available to view at our showroom in The London Silver Vaults.
Looking after your silverware is a simple process. We have put together a guide at https://johnsurtees.co.uk/knowledge/how-to-clean-silver-care-guide/