Not on display

Enamel Sample

ca. 1900 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Slightly tapering cylindrical glass pharmacy jar with stepped neck and turned wooden and cork stopper . Contains lumps of blue enamel; 6 ounces capacity (the base being moulded ‘6 oz’).

Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Industrially made glass jar with wooden and cork stopper, containing lumps of coloured enamel
Brief description
Glass jar with wooden and cork stopper, containing containing lumps of blue enamel manufactured by Louis Millenet Petit Fils of Geneva, Switzerland, about 1900
Physical description
Slightly tapering cylindrical glass pharmacy jar with stepped neck and turned wooden and cork stopper . Contains lumps of blue enamel; 6 ounces capacity (the base being moulded ‘6 oz’).
Dimensions
  • Approximate height: 12cm
  • Approximate diameter: 6cm
Object history
Provenance: enamel samples C.69 to C.92-2002 are from the effects of Ezra Dearing (born William Jones), who had studied at the RCA and was a potter and modeller and studied gold and silversmithing. He bought the enamels second-hand out of interest but the vendor's daughter did not think he used them himself.
Collection
Accession number
C.71-2002

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Record createdApril 5, 2005
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