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The Art of Drink – Mayflower Antiques

Mayflower Antiques

We are delighted to present our new Catalogue ‘The Art of Drink’. This showcases a rare and interesting selection of early silver drink related vessels of various origins, styles and types. [Click to view pdf copy] Hard copies of the Catalogue are available on request. Just email your name and address to us and we shall be pleased to send a copy to you.

Over the past two years, we have continued to expand our stock, and to work with The Antique Marketing Company, and the 2Covet, LAPADA and CADA websites to promote it.

A particularly refreshing aspect to the present market is the re emergence of the various fairs, following the lifting of Covid restrictions. We shall be visiting the TEFAF fair at Maastricht at the end of June, to renew contacts and hopefully source some new acquisitions.

Mayflower will be exhibiting at the CADA fair to be held at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, Thursday 13th October to Sunday 16th October inclusive. Tickets will be available in the next few weeks, so please put the dates in the diary and we shall of course be delighted to welcome you.

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Our Christmas 2021 Newsletter

Seasons Greetings from Mayflower Antiques

We are pleased to report that the CADA fair held from the 14th to the 17th October 2021 at Compton Verney, Warwickshire was successful for us, resulting in a number of sales. The new venue at Compton Verney was excellent, and we would expect this to become an annual fixture. So, for those clients who were unable to make it this year, do make a note to see us there next autumn.

We are currently working on a new Catalogue to be entitled ‘The Art of Drink’. This will showcase a selection of rare and interesting 16th and 17th century drinking vessels, and will include several new pieces. We hope this will be ready within the next two or three months. We continue to work with The Antique Marketing Company, and the 2Covet, LAPADA and CADA websites to promote our stock.

We send all our clients, contacts and friends our very best wishes for Christmas and the New Year.

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Our Christmas 2020 Newsletter

We send Season’s greetings to all our clients, contacts and friends, and warmest thanks for all your help and support during 2020. Let us hope and pray that in 2021 the current restrictions can be eased, and that life can start to return to some sort of normality.

The focus of our business has always been to build a strong online presence. With the restrictions on business this year, there has been a noticeable shift within the antique trade towards doing business in this way, which we think will continue to be the case. We continue to work with 2Covet, LAPADA and CADA.

The CADA fair scheduled for October 2020 was inevitably postponed. It is now scheduled for October 2021. Just as a reminder, the new venue for this fair is at Compton Verney, Nr. Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire.

Following on from the success of our first Catalogue, published autumn 2019, ‘European Glassmaking 1450 to 1700’, we have been fortunate to have acquired several new quality glass pieces of the period. We are now working on a second, follow up Catalogue, to be entitled ‘Venetian and Facon de Venise Glass’. This will seek to illustrate the characteristics by which it may be possible, often admittedly extremely tentatively, to attribute glasses to Venice or to other regions in Europe where glassware of comparable quality was made. We are hoping to produce this Catalogue within the next few months.

As a longer term project, we are working on a Catalogue about early English silver of the Stuart period, and how it ‘reflects’ the tumultuous history of the period.

In the meantime, we are pleased to present ten new silver and Kunstkammer objects; there are two fine pieces of early English silver from the reigns of James I and Charles I; a very rare pair of steel sugar cutters and two lovely pieces of silver from Southern Germany, illustrating the quality of metalworking for which that region was renowned; a pretty little Dutch silver strapwork box; two Spanish silver pieces, and two Spanish Colonial pieces.

We shall be pleased to give further details, so please e-mail or telephone.

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New Year – January 2020

We would like to wish all our clients, contacts and friends a very happy, healthy and successful New Year. 2020 does of course mark the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower.

This anniversary will no doubt be the cause of much celebration during the year on both sides of the Atlantic, particularly in the autumn when the voyage took place. 

Our first Catalogue, which is entitled ‘The Art of Imitation – European Glassmaking 1450 to 1700‘, has now been produced, and we have been busy over the past few weeks sending it out to clients, museums and contacts both abroad and here in the UK.

A pdf version of the Catalogue is being attached to this newsletter, please click the link above. If you would like one or more printed copies, please e-mail your details, and we shall be gladly post these to you. Online, we continue to build our presence.

Towards the end of last year, we cancelled our membership with 1st dibs and now work with 2Covet. – We continue to work with LAPADA, CADA and Barneby’s. We have many new acquisitions which we shall be posting on these and our own website during the coming months. The CADA fair which we have exhibited at the last 3 years is changing it’s venue this year to the Compton Verney Art Gallery, near Stratford upon Avon and close to the M40 junction. It will be held 15th to 18th October 2020. Tickets will be available nearer the time.