"Anglo-Japanese" style footed container?

[neilinthegarden]

Can anyone tell me the official style of this footed vessel, and the intended use of the piece? Thanks so much!
neilinthegarden

http://www.flickr.com/photos/50310343@N04/?saved=1

[silverport]

Hello

Your item, I guess, could be a kind of food warmer?

Made by Pairpoint Mfg. Co, New Bedford, MA, founded 1880.

Please look here: http://www.925-1000.com/silverplate_P.html

The style is a tamed one - not Historism, nor Art Nouveau.

Something decorative - and simple to clean as well.

American members could maybe give you more sounded information.

Kind regards silverport

[admin]

Don't know the intended use of the piece, but in American silver the style is often referred as Japanesque, an offshoot or subclass of the Aesthetic Movement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetici ... ative_arts

Regards, Tom