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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 small 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, silver, electrotype
Brief description
copper, silvered, electrotype, London, Jean Julien Faucherre, 1850-1880
Physical description
Unfinished rectangular box lid. Uncut copper electrotype which is then silvered. The design is in reverse. Central car touche of hunting scene with horsemen, hounds and a dead deer within a wood as M.14-2009. " FAUCHERRE sc " in reverse reversing of the design suggests that this is part of the process for completing a box.
Dimensions
  • Length: 10cm
  • Width: 15.6cm
  • Depth: 0.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
'FAUCHERRE sc' in reverse
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 small 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.23-2009

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Record createdApril 23, 2009
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