Handmade Persian ceramics Serving Platters
As demonstrated in the examples above, silver was primarily used to craft fine objects of tableware, chocolate eating dishes and etc. This beautiful Persian ceramics dish is designed with silver ornament.
The fashion for silver tableware emerged together with the taste for fine dining. Elaborate dining practices became popular among the French elite in the late 17th and 18th Centuries, and were soon picked up elsewhere in Europe.
Mealtimes were ceremonious occasions, which often consisted of several courses of food, beautifully presented on fine pieces of silver with Persian ceramics. The abundance of silver — plates of varying sizes, cutlery, sauceboats, salvers, centerpieces, and candelabra — was an elaborate and magnificent display of status and wealth, intended to impress dinner party guests.
With the discovery of the New World, new foodstuffs began to be imported into European countries. New forms of silverware were thus created to serve these new foods, such as the coffee and tea pot.
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