Enamel Sample
ca. 1900 (made)
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Slightly tapering cylindrical glass pharmacy jar containing lumps of cobalt blue enamel and loose paper label inscribed '23? or 25'; small turned wooden cover stamped 'JOHN BELL & CO + OXFORD ST W'. 6 ounces capacity (the base being moulded ‘6 oz’).
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Industrially made glass jar with wooden and cork stopper, containing lumps of cobalt blue enamel |
| Brief description | Glass jar with wooden and cork stopper, containing lumps of cobalt blue enamel manufactured by Louis Millenet Petit Fils of Geneva, Switzerland, about 1900 |
| Physical description | Slightly tapering cylindrical glass pharmacy jar containing lumps of cobalt blue enamel and loose paper label inscribed '23? or 25'; small turned wooden cover stamped 'JOHN BELL & CO + OXFORD ST W'. 6 ounces capacity (the base being moulded ‘6 oz’). |
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| 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. |
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| Accession number | C.77-2002 |
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| Record created | April 5, 2005 |
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