Naturalistic & Aesthetic Silver

The Aesthetic movement was a late 19th century ideal that art should be created for art’s sake and designed for purely visual pleasure. In silver there have to be practical considerations too as the objects are functional, but the decoration tends to have a free will and beauty with often contradicting themes. There tends to be a cross-over with other art forms too, especially Japonisme and Naturalism.

Naturalistically inspired silver has been evident since the 18th century with the main theme of decoration inspired by nature, be it flora or fauna.