The Silver and Sheffield Plate Collector; A Guide to English Domestic Metal Work in Old Silver and Old Sheffield Plate by Jr W A Young
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Author: Jr W A Young
Number of Pages: 70 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231314265
File size: 47 Mb
File Name: The.Silver.and.Sheffield.Plate.Collector;.A.Guide.to.English.Domestic.Metal.Work.in.Old.Silver.and.Old.Sheffield.Plate.pdf
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...knob; the edge and the foot with gadroon design; imitated silver marks near rim and handle. Date, circa 1760. Mr. B. B. Harrison. of wire, although in such cases a blue glass liner was necessarily fitted. The content was served with a ladle. The jug, from which cream could be poured, was used side by side with the pail, and it seems not improbable that one was used at the dinner table for serving cream over fruit, and the other as a complement to the teapot. The short, low-bellied jug with a small lip and a bow handle, which just now is commanding such high prices per ounce, dates from George the First's day, but there was an earlier type, with a bellied bottom, a straight neck, no lip and a simple bow handle. These early miniature jugs are sometimes found in sets of three small ones and one a size larger. These sets are rare and have puzzled the experts, who are not agreed about their probable use, some holding that they were for liqueur, while others maintain that they are the true Queen Anne cream jugs. The bellied pattern had a ring foot, but with George the Second the silversmiths adopted the method of putting the round-bottomed body on three fancy cast silver feet. These were still plain, but in the next reign the body began to be decorated by repousse and chasing. The lip became an elongated spout, and in place of a bow, a curved or shaped handle was substituted. The three feet were probably never quite satisfactory--most collectors know the specimen with two feet on the jug and the other " in one of my boxes," and in place thereof the silversmiths tried (about 177o-178o) a round foot and a short stem. These necessitated some alteration in the shape of the body which assumed a vase shape below the line where the neck breaks into a well-roun...
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