Antique Piccadilly Hotel London Silverplate Dish

Built in 1908 as one of London’s most luxurious hotels, The Piccadilly Hotel was known as a “Twentieth Century Palace”.  Sitting majestically between the fashionable Regent Street and Piccadilly, the hotel was designed by architect Richard Norman Shaw, in a Neo-Baroque style based on 17th-century English Palladian architecture. 

The Grand Hotel had nearly 300 bedrooms, massive restaurants, four Masonic temples, a grill room and ran like a well-oiled machine with a staff of over 650.  It had its own generator which supplied all its electricity and its water came from an artesian well which had been dug 400 feet down – thus ensuring that the guests did not have to drink the oft-tainted London city water supply.

The hotel was archetypal of the high Edwardian style, becoming immediately famous for its lavish spending and subsequently enjoying the royal patronage of not only visiting European nobility, but also King George V.

Today the hotel is owned by the Le Méridian Group and has been given the name Le Méridian Piccadilly.  It continues to represent the great tradition of Grand European Hotels.

Produced in 1908 as part of the opening silver order for the glorious Piccadilly Hotel, we are thrilled to present this magnificent Antique Silverplate Dish made by the venerable British silversmiths of Elkington Silver Company.  Used by the hotel as a bread dish, this exquisite antique treasure has an elegantly undulating top rim enhanced with a decorative pierced border. Along the bottom edge of the dish an applied reed and ribbon border represents the kind of attention to detail that made the Piccadilly Hotel such an icon of style and service. On the side of the dish, the hotel’s regal crest of a crown above a furled ribbon bearing the hotel name, celebrates the hotel’s royal patronage.

Classic in silhouette, the dish bears the heft and restrained elegance that are hallmarks of quality hotel silver. Bottom-stamped with the Piccadilly Hotel London name, this piece is sure to serve you and your guests with the same elegance as it did in that most-famous of hotels.

Strictly one-of-a-kind and subject to prior sale. In good antique condition with discreet signs of wear and age from a life of service in a Grand Hotel. 11″ x 7.5″ x 2″H.