Box Lid
1850-1880 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
This unfinished object may have been intended to form part of the process for making the lid for a box. It is one of a group of objects from the workshop of the Swiss engraver, Jean Julien Faucherre (1805-1891). He was born and trained in Switzerland but worked in France from about 1830 to 1841 when he settled in London. In 1857, he was described as a master watch engraver but the surviving material, although including watch dials, demonstrates wider involvement in the silversmithing trade from electrotyped dressing table boxes to engraved panels for carriage clocks. It is very rare to find so much documented material from one of the smaller suppliers in the trade. His work would have been largely anonymous and sold under the name of larger silversmiths or retailers of the Victorian period.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Copper, silvered, electrotype, wax |
| Brief description | copper, silvered, electrotype, England, Jean Julien Faucherre, 1850-1880 |
| Physical description | Unfinished rectangular box lid, copper electrotype which is then silvered. The design is in reverse. Wax back. Design in central cartouche of ladies and gentlemen in eighteenth century costume dancing in a garden."FAUCHERRE sc" reversed. All within oval outline as M.20-2009 but here centred in an expanded rectangular design with four goblin like figures playing musical instruments in the corners. Further scrolling foliate patterns beyond this to form a large rectangular box lid design. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'FAUCHERRE sc' reversed |
| Credit line | Given by Miss Jeanne Faucherre |
| Object history | This is one of a group of objects from the workshop of Jean Julien Faucherre (M.4 - 24 - 2009). |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | This unfinished object may have been intended to form part of the process for making the lid for a box. It is one of a group of objects from the workshop of the Swiss engraver, Jean Julien Faucherre (1805-1891). He was born and trained in Switzerland but worked in France from about 1830 to 1841 when he settled in London. In 1857, he was described as a master watch engraver but the surviving material, although including watch dials, demonstrates wider involvement in the silversmithing trade from electrotyped dressing table boxes to engraved panels for carriage clocks. It is very rare to find so much documented material from one of the smaller suppliers in the trade. His work would have been largely anonymous and sold under the name of larger silversmiths or retailers of the Victorian period. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | M.22-2009 |
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| Record created | April 23, 2009 |
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