All that glitters: Two auctions offering silver and crystal

Nothing complements fine dining more than silver and crystal, writes Des O'Sullivan

An arts and crafts silver porringer with green glass liner at Keighery's.

Memo to the slow-food movement. Nothing complements fine dining so much as glittering silver and crystal. The At Home sale by James Adam in Dublin and RJ Keighery's biggest-ever single-day auction in Waterford offers bags of both. Both auctions are on Tuesday (February 24). 

Pride of place at James Adam is a 24 place Sheffield silver-thread pattern canteen from around 1947. It weighs over 446 troy ounces in total, excluding the stainless steel blades and sits in its own walnut lowboy chest-on-cabriole-legs. The estimate is €10,000-€15,000.