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c. 1740 Boston silver cann recovered in NC from a family tracing to Long Island. Nathaniel Hurd engraved the arms of Thos. Dering. Provenanced Boston hollowware is most held by institutions.
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c. 1740 Jacob Hurd 3/4 Pint Mugg for Thomas Deering - 18th Century Boston Coin Silver — ↝DC SILVER↜
This early c. 1740 Jacob Hurd of Boston silver mugg was recently recovered in North Carolina from a family that traces their roots to Long Island. The cup has remained with the family by descent until...
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November 19, 2024 at 2:18 PM
loscastillotaxco.bsky.social
A silverplate Peacock pitcher by Los Castillo of Taxco inlaid with malachite and azurite stones circa 1980s.

#loscastillotaxco #antoniodesign #vintage1980s #mexicansilver #peacock #pitcher #hollowware #mexicandesign #hechoenmexico #plata
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
everymikeshard.bsky.social
Mike's Hard Hollowware
February 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
alimcg.bsky.social
Thanks so much @natflashfictionday.bsky.social for nominating 'Hollowware' for a Pushcart Prize! 🎉 Such a lovely boost! Congrats and best of luck to my fellow nominees!
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December 17, 2024 at 10:49 AM
usartwork.bsky.social
annotates puddly kerygma hollowware conscientious converging coweringly stallion disrupted standpoint
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May 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
chefericfeltman.bsky.social
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This is a set of berry spoons with grape shears in their original fitted box. The elaborate handles feature pierce work and bright-cut designs, crafted in vermeil 900 coin silver. We collect antique tableware and hollowware, using them frequently. This set dates to the 1860s and is American-made.
February 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
patrickkapty.bsky.social
Some items that I found in the exhibition catalog "Modernt Svenskt Silver" (Modern Swedish Silver) by Sofia Rudling (2009)

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JUG WITH EBONY HANDLE BY ROLF LINDSTÄHL, Stockholm 2003, height 13cm "Baby Bottle" jug by Mats Eskils, Sweden, 2007, height 15cms COFFEE POT WITH ACRYLIC HANDLE BY WOLFGANG GESSL, STOCKHOLM 2005. 36 CM. TALL "Modernt Svenskt Silver" exhibition catalog by Sofia Rudling (2009) Stockholm, Sweden.
December 27, 2024 at 6:22 PM
southernliving.com
What Is Hollowware? You Probably Already Own Some And Don’t Realize It bit.ly/4kglyop
What Is Hollowware? You Probably Already Own Some And Don’t Realize It
June 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Circa '70 Coffee Service https://www.artic.edu/artworks/202823/
In 1956 Gorham Manufacturing Company, the country’s leading maker and retailer of fashionable silver, recruited Donald Colflesh to bring a “contemporary dimension” to its traditional products. Colflesh’s most popular and successful design for the firm was the Circa ’70 series, in which he brilliantly captured America’s ambition to go the moon. In this coffee service, the intersecting angles epitomize the era of space-age design, and the curving, upright thrust of the handles and spouts conveys the aerodynamics of the jet age. Gorham reinforced the coffee service’s space-age associations in accompanying pamphlets, noting its “feeling of vertical motion . . . the upward look to space.” The company’s name for the line, Circa ’70, also confidently alludes to the future and its possibilities. The sleek contours and elongated ebony finials and handles, however, were exceptional for mid-century hollowware and recall similar embellishments on early-20th-century Scandinavian silver. Through prior bequest of Arthur Rubloff
September 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
aquavirago.bsky.social
PotShot! Homer Laughlin "Charm House" and "Rhythm" teapots. While these two teapots and their accompanying hollowware are different, CH was sold in sets with Rhythm flatware. Too convoluted to get into with character limit here, so gonna throw down a couple links for folks who might be interested.
Homer Laughlin Charm House teapot in shiny black. Made in the 50s, with a very MCM mid century modern look! The body is a somewhat flattened ball shape, with the lid completing the round of the body. Spout originates from the bottom of the pot and swoops up in a generous arc to form a rather small diagonal opening compared to the wideness of where it's attached to the pot. Handle is a generous, upward tilting C-shape. Lid has a simple arc-shaped handle with little side-tabs, and a vent hole. These pots are seldom marked, for some weird reason. Homer Laughlin Rhythm vintage pottery teapot in chartreuse. Body is rounded but tall, and tapers inward at the top to a wide rim with an inset lid. Lid handle is a filled in bowl shape. Spout is a very short, stubby protrusion at rim height, with a small opening. Handle is a generous, upward tilting "ear" shape, attaching at both top and bottom with little vertical tabs rather than directly perpendicular. Rhythm and Charm House hollowware (teapot, sugar, creamer, etc.) shapes were different, but CH was usually paired with Rhythm flatware (plates) when sold as a set.
April 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM
allengarvin.bsky.social
Spring polishing time. Figured I'd start small and work myself up to the tea service I never use.
Hand hammered silver hollowware, last polished during pandemic. About halfway there. Lovely Dallas spring day.
April 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
morningoak.bsky.social
A good friend of mine is one of the few remaining hollowware buffers.
May 13, 2025 at 5:40 AM
aquavirago.bsky.social
I like the design, but I'm kinda on the fence about the shape of the hollowware... it reminds me of the Tin Man on the Wizard of Oz, LOL.
November 24, 2024 at 3:21 PM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Tureen https://www.artic.edu/artworks/234687/
This exuberant tureen exemplifies the highly imaginative and technically advanced hollowware that made Gorham one of the leading silver manufacturers in the 19th century. In 1869 the firm was the first major American silver company to introduce Japanese-inspired designs into their product line, ahead of competitors like Tiffany and Company. This vessel features aquatic motifs, likely drawn from Japanese prints: giant carp and a turtle, articulated in deep relief, thrash in violent waters, while the undulating body of the tureen itself suggests the movement of the sea. Mary Swissler Oldberg Fund
April 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Coffee or Tea Service https://www.artic.edu/artworks/90585/
The Brooklyn firm Webster Manufacturing Company was one of many silver manufacturers in the New York region serving the burgeoning consumer society of the late 19th century. This coffee or tea service was typical of the company’s products, which were primarily silver hollowware. The use of electroplating and a drop in the price of silver during the period made merchandise like this affordable to a much wider population than ever before. Moreover, electroplating added value to functional, everyday objects, an aim of the Aesthetic movement, the influence of which can also be seen in the strong geometric style visible in these pieces’ legs and handles. Gift of Mrs. Julian A. Altman
January 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
wnjeffers.bsky.social
If cast iron hollowware is properly seasoned, it is perfectly fine to use soap on it. Soap will cut oil, but not oils that have been polymerized in the seasoning process. I use only cast iron skillets and wash them after each use with blue Dawn dish soap and a non-scratch scrubber pad. No damage.
March 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
wnjeffers.bsky.social
I want to leave behind a better world. I also have several dozen perfectly seasoned pieces of cast iron hollowware. Most of which I use on a regular basis.

Perfectly seasoned cast iron is a good thing.
August 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
raynewman.bsky.social
A detail from an advert for Swan Brand (“electrical appliances and aluminium hollowware”) from ‘Design in the Festival’, Council of Industrial Design, 1951.
And ornate Victorian-style number 2 overlaid on a minimal illustration of a swan, both echoing each other's shapes.
May 7, 2024 at 10:22 AM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Decanter entitled "Cycladic Figure with His Hair in a Roller" https://www.artic.edu/artworks/71927/
The hollowware of silversmith Thomas Muir often combines anthropomorphic or natural forms with machinelike elements to surreal effect. His “Cycladic Figure” decanter takes inspiration from stylized female statuettes found in ancient Aegean art, but the playful title reveals that Muir has transformed the feminine idol into a man in an unlikely pose. Moreover, the streamlined shape and dual projecting elements below the handle recall the futuristic style of kitchen appliances from Muir’s childhood. In this way, the decanter probes the relationships between body and machine, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern, and sculpture and household object. Raymond W. Garbe Fund in honor of Carl A. Erikson, Sr.
October 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Pair of Candlesticks https://www.artic.edu/artworks/89128/
In 1900 Robert Riddle Jarvie began advertising himself as “the Candlestick Maker.” He produced 16 different designs, each named after a Greek letter. These elongated candlesticks take inspiration from natural flower forms, reflecting the influence of the English Arts and Crafts movement. Jarvie also fashioned hollowware reminiscent of medieval forms and incorporated spare, geometric ornament and Celtic-inspired script into his designs. Bessie Bennett and Mrs. Herbert Stern funds
July 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Berry Bowl https://www.artic.edu/artworks/213882/
As one of many new manufacturers competing in a vast marketplace, George W. Shiebler began producing silver in the early 1870s. Although Shiebler’s firm was better known for its decorative flatware and silver jewelry, this bowl showcases the firm’s inventive design and dexterous handling of hollowware, which was made in more limited production. The intricate handle is formed of entwined branches and leaves, plums, and copper cherries, with three applied insects—a fly, a beetle, and a spider—further enhancing the object’s lifelike quality. While the vessel was inspired by Japanese naturalism, which was popular among American silver firms of the Aesthetic movement, the realistic details also reference John Ruskin’s belief that truth and beauty emerged from nature. Interestingly, the bowl is stamped with several French import marks, indicating that its American owner brought the bowl into France. Roger and J. Peter McCormick Endowment; Vance American Arts and Mrs. Eric Oldberg funds
December 16, 2024 at 1:06 PM
chateauminette.com
Today Lisa and I are celebrating our 16th Wedding Anniversary, we looked it up and 16th is Wax & Silver Holloware.
Last night I told Lisa I was getting her a silver hollowware bedpan, and without hesitation, she told me she was saving up ear wax for me ! ...lol
And this is why our Marriage works !
August 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Pair of Candlesticks https://www.artic.edu/artworks/89128/
In 1900 Robert Riddle Jarvie began advertising himself as “the Candlestick Maker.” He produced 16 different designs, each named after a Greek letter. These elongated candlesticks take inspiration from natural flower forms, reflecting the influence of the English Arts and Crafts movement. Jarvie also fashioned hollowware reminiscent of medieval forms and incorporated spare, geometric ornament and Celtic-inspired script into his designs. Bessie Bennett and Mrs. Herbert Stern funds
November 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM