Parcel-gilt silver vase or water pitcher with Japanese-inspired decoration: USA, New York, designed by Edward Chandler Moore and made by Tiffany and Company, 1878 - 1891

Tankard of parcel-gilt silver decorated with Narcissus gazing at his reflection in the water almost certainly based on a print adapting Virgil Solis’ woodcut of Narcissus published in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (1563) and Reusner’s Emblemata (1581), with other subjects in repoussé, and cover surmounted by a cast swan: Polish, Danzig (Gdansk), by Benedict Clausen, c. 1700

Parcel-gilt silver pyx with lantern-shaped top with scale pattern and engraved armorial on front: German, Augsburg, by Hans Waidelin, 1590 - 1595

Chalice with a partly gilt silver bowl set on a gilt copper stem and foot decorated with champlevé and basse-taille enamels on silver: Italian, Tuscany, mid-14th century

Chalice with a partly gilt silver bowl set on a gilt copper stem and foot decorated with champlevé and basse-taille enamels: Italian, Tuscany, Siena, by Tommaso di Vannino, early 15th century, with an added silver plaquette engraved with the arms of the Medici family of Florence from the late 16th or 17th century

Processional cross, of partly gilt silver on a wooden core with silvered copper knops, with Christ in Judgement, the Virgin Mary, St John, two angels and the Annunciation on one side and Christ Crucifixed with the symbols of the Four Evangelists on the other: Italian, Abruzzo, Sulmona, marked SUL, dated 1430

Parcel-gilt silver crucifix with image with jewelled nimbus and figure subjects illustrating The Entombment, The Descent from the Cross, The Resurrection and The Ascension: Russian, Moscow, assayer's mark of 1741

Parcel-gilt silver teapot engraved with Japanese-inspired decoration, part of a tea set: English, Birmingham, by Elkington and Co., hallmarked London, 1882 - 1883

Parcel-gilt silver sugar basin engraved with Japanese-inspired decoration, part of a tea set: English, Birmingham, by Elkington and Co., hallmarked London, 1882 - 1883

Parcel-gilt silver teaspoon engraved with Japanese-inspired decoration, part of a tea set: English, Birmingham, by Elkington and Co., hallmarked London, 1882 - 1883

Parcel-gilt silver teaspoon engraved with Japanese-inspired decoration, part of a tea set: English, Birmingham, by Elkington and Co., hallmarked London, 1882 - 1883

Parcel-gilt silver teaspoon engraved with Japanese-inspired decoration, part of a tea set: English, Birmingham, by Elkington and Co., hallmarked London, 1882 - 1883

Main part of stem and foot of an elaborately decorated two-part candlestick of parcel-gilt silver with four separately made silver figures wearing 16th century costume mounted in niches on stem: English, London, by John Samuel Hunt for Hunt and Roskell, hallmarked 1856 - 1857

Drip-pan and upper part of stem of an elaborately decorated two-part candlestick of parcel-gilt silver with four separately made silver figures wearing 16th century costume mounted in niches on stem: English, London, by John Samuel Hunt for Hunt and Roskell, hallmarked 1856 - 1857

Detachable candle-holder for an elaborately decorated two-part candlestick of parcel-gilt silver with four separately made silver figures wearing 16th century costume mounted in niches on stem: English, London, by John Samuel Hunt for Hunt and Roskell, hallmarked 1856 - 1857

Main part of stem and foot of an elaborately decorated two-part candlestick of parcel-gilt silver with four separately made silver figures wearing 16th century costume mounted in niches on stem: English, London, by Hunt and Roskell, hallmarked 1856 - 1857