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Dish

Dish

  • Place of origin:

    England, Great Britain (made)

  • Date:

    ca. 1760 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Unknown (production)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Lead glass, mounted in gilt bronze

  • Credit Line:

    Given by Mrs Wilfred Buckley

  • Museum number:

    C.638-1936

  • Gallery location:

    British Galleries, room 118a, case 5

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Object Type
After the perfection of wheel-cut table glass towards the mid-18th century, small sweetmeat dishes began to form an essential part of the dessert table.

Retailers & Trading
Glass retailers in London and elsewhere fuelled the market for luxury products by supplying expensive cut glass dessert wares. The trade card of the London glassman Colebron Hancock, for example, illustrated dishes similar to these, also apparently with elaborate ormolu mounts. Glass 'manufacturers' like Hancock would buy glass blanks from neighbouring glasshouses, cut them and have them mounted in ormolu (decorative gilt bronze) for sale to the top end of the market. Despite their solid construction and apparent resistence to breakage, extremely few of these mounted dishes have survived.

Place of Origin

England, Great Britain (made)

Date

ca. 1760 (made)

Artist/maker

Unknown (production)

Materials and Techniques

Lead glass, mounted in gilt bronze

Dimensions

Width: 13.7 cm maximum

Object history note

Made in England

Descriptive line

Dish, one of a pair, England, 1750-1770

Labels and date

British Galleries:
The technique of cutting glass on a wheel was introduced into England by German and Bohemian craftsmen in the early 18th century. It was used to great effect on the lustrous and refractive English lead glass. Cutting seems to have been used on dessert glass long before it appeared on decanters and other forms of drinking glass. [27/03/2003]

Categories

Glass; British Galleries; Food vessels & Tableware

Collection code

CER

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