An Antique Gorham Sterling Silver Shell Form Olive Dish

Marked with Gorham's trademark and "Sterling / 535," circa 1887, the naturalistically modeled shell raised on two shell form feet and featuring applied "sand" to underside, no monograms.

4 1/2 x 4 in.

2.25 troy oz.

In the 1880s, the Gorham Manufacturing Company embraced Aesthetic Movement and Japonisme influences, producing silver that reflected the period’s growing Western interest in Japanese art and design.

This olive dish relates closely to Gorham’s Narragansett pattern, introduced in 1884. Named for the Narragansett people of coastal Rhode Island, the design draws on local marine motifs such as shells, seaweed, and other shoreline forms found along the region’s waters.

Faint remnants of gold wash to interior, most of the gilding has been worn away; overall in good estate condition.

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